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Obama Has A Big Fat Greek Finger

Obama Has A Big Fat Greek Finger Will this Greek stuff ever stop? Probably, but don’t hold your breath. I was reading up on China, but that will have to wait till tomorrow. A friend just sent me a Sputnik story -they’re a Russian news channel, so they can’t be trusted, right?!- that adds more […]

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Are They About To Confiscate Money From Bank Accounts In Greece Just Like They Did In Cyprus?

Are They About To Confiscate Money From Bank Accounts In Greece Just Like They Did In Cyprus? Do you remember what happened when Cyprus decided to defy the EU?  In the end, the entire banking system of the nation collapsed and money was confiscated from private bank accounts.  Well, the nation of Greece is now […]

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Are They About To Confiscate Money From Bank Accounts In Greece Just Like They Did In Cyprus?

Are They About To Confiscate Money From Bank Accounts In Greece Just Like They Did In Cyprus? Do you remember what happened when Cyprus decided to defy the EU?  In the end, the entire banking system of the nation collapsed and money was confiscated from private bank accounts.  Well, the nation of Greece is now […]

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Russian Gas: There Is No Alternative For Europe

Russian Gas: There Is No Alternative For Europe The sanctions are now in their second year; the ruble is still not quite itself; and national champions Gazprom and Rosneft are both bracing for what can generously be called a down year. Still, while Russia’s political relationship with the west continues to be redefined, the broader […]

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Shape Of Greek Endgame Emerges: IMF Discussed “Cyprus-Like” Plan After Tsipras Warned Of Looming Default

Shape Of Greek Endgame Emerges: IMF Discussed “Cyprus-Like” Plan After Tsipras Warned Of Looming Default As we said over the weekend, it’s all about Riga again for Greece. EU leaders will meet on Thursday and Friday in Latvia where PM Alexis Tsipras will try to secure a more favorable outcome than did FinMin Yanis Varoufakis who, last […]

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Why Not Tell Greece How To Run A Democracy?

Why Not Tell Greece How To Run A Democracy? I know I’ve talked about this before, but it just keeps coming and it keeps being crzay.Bloomberg ‘reports’ that the ‘German Finance Ministry’, let me get this right, “is supporting the idea of a vote by Greek citizens to either accept the economic reforms being sought by […]

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When Europe Gets Greece’s Jingle Mail: Dealing with Default

When Europe Gets Greece’s Jingle Mail: Dealing with Default The costs and consequences of Greece exiting the Eurozone may well dwarf the financial losses triggered by Greece’s default. The term Jingle mail originated in the great popping of the housing bubble 2008-2011. It refers to defaulting homeowners mailing the keys to their house back to the lender, and […]

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Europe Preparing Greek Bankruptcy Loan “In Event Of Grexit”

Europe Preparing Greek Bankruptcy Loan “In Event Of Grexit” Earlier today, we learned that, contrary to what Greek government officials had been implying for the better part of a week, Athens did not have enough money to make a €750 million payment to the IMF on Tuesday. Instead, Greeceborrowed most of the money (€650 million according […]

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Greece Is Now Just A Political Issue

Greece Is Now Just A Political Issue Greece paid off the IMF yesterday with its IMF reserves. Is that a big deal? Whatever you may want to read into this, it’s been obvious for years that Greece needs major debt restructuring if it wants to move forward and have a future as a country -let […]

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Will Austerity Be the Straw that Breaks the EU AND the UK?

Will Austerity Be the Straw that Breaks the EU AND the UK? From where we’re sitting, the biggest victory in the May 7 British election will turn out to be not that of the Conservatives, but of the SNP, the Scottish nationalists. The party took 56 out of 59 Scottish seats in the United Kingdom’s […]

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The Choice Before Europe

The Choice Before Europe Washington continues to drive Europe toward one or the other of the two most likely outcomes of the orchestrated conflict with Russia. Either Europe or some European Union member government will break from Washington over the issue of Russian sanctions, thereby forcing the EU off of the path of conflict with […]

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“Stop Being So Negative”: Putting It All Together

“Stop Being So Negative”: Putting It All Together Putting it all together Considering: 1) governments are unable to eliminate deficits 2) global government debt is increasing exponentially 3) 0% interest rates are allowing governments to borrow more to pay off old loans and fund deficits 4) Global growth is declining despite money printing and bailouts […]

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Angela Merkel’s NSA Nightmare Just Got A Lot Worse

Angela Merkel’s NSA Nightmare Just Got A Lot Worse Angela Merkel, Germany’s most successful and popular politician, could be in serious trouble, after revelations that Germany’s national intelligence agency, the BND, has been spying on key European assets on behalf of US intelligence. Those “assets” include top French officials, the EU’s headquarters, the European defense […]

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Greek Debt Crisis

Greek Debt Crisis Is Default or Exit Inevitable? This past week, April 24, European finance ministers met in Riga, Latvia. High on the agenda was the topic of Greek debt negotiations. Two months after the February 28 interim agreement between Greece and the EU ‘troika’—the IMF, European Commission, and European Central Bank—in which both sides agreed to […]

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Fierce Opposition? Heck, EU Lets Fracking in through Back Door

Fierce Opposition? Heck, EU Lets Fracking in through Back Door In Europe these days, the pace of legislative change is dizzying, as Brussels continues its blitz-like power grab. Last year saw the birth of the banking union. This year, it’s Energy Union. With the European Commission determined to push through an ambitious consolidation of the continent’s disparate energy […]

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