{"id":8214,"date":"2015-05-18T09:23:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T14:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8214"},"modified":"2015-05-18T09:25:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T14:25:28","slug":"shape-of-greek-endgame-emerges-imf-discussed-cyprus-like-plan-after-tsipras-warned-of-looming-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8214","title":{"rendered":"Shape Of Greek Endgame Emerges: IMF Discussed &#8220;Cyprus-Like&#8221; Plan After Tsipras Warned Of Looming Default"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-05-18\/shape-greek-endgame-emerges-imf-discussed-cyprus-plan-after-tsipras-warned-looming-d\" target=\"_blank\">Shape Of Greek Endgame Emerges: IMF Discussed &#8220;Cyprus-Like&#8221; Plan After Tsipras Warned Of Looming Default<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>As we said over the weekend,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-05-16\/greece-will-default-june-5-without-deal-imf-leaks\">it\u2019s all about Riga<\/a>\u00a0again 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 month in Riga, reportedly did more chiding and lecturing than negotiating, a performance that may ultimately cost him his job once all is said and done. The situation is far more urgent this time around, with Greece having tapped its IMF SDR account to make a payment to the Fund and with the banking sector running dangerously low on collateral that can be pledged for emergency liquidity.<\/p>\n<p>A bit more color from Deutsche Bank:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><em>One thing that is starting to come to a head is Greece. With an EU leaders summit in Riga scheduled for Thursday and Friday, we should have a good idea of where current negotiations stand by the end of the week. Talks may well pick up in pace over the next few days with a spokesman for the Syriza party saying on Greek TV (Mega) that \u2018we\u2019re striving for a mutually beneficial agreement by Friday\u2019 while pushing the party line that \u2018our mandate from the Greek people is to reach an agreement where we stay in the euro area without harsh austerity measures\u2019&#8230;<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shape Of Greek Endgame Emerges: IMF Discussed &#8220;Cyprus-Like&#8221; Plan After Tsipras Warned Of Looming Default As we said over the weekend,\u00a0it\u2019s all about Riga\u00a0again 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[195,200,1839,994,279,284,1167,418,434,4318],"class_list":["post-8214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-debt","tag-default","tag-deutsche-bank","tag-endgame","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-greece","tag-imf","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8215,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}