Showing posts with label Euro crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Euro crisis. Show all posts
Sunday, February 24, 2019

24/2/19: Europe of Divergence: Euro and the Crisis Aftermath

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A promise of economic convergence was one of the core reasons behind the creation of the Euro. At no time in the Euro area history has thi...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

9/1/19: Banca Carige & the Promise of Euro Banks Insolvency Resolution Regime

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Italy has been the testing ground for the European regulatory framework for resolution of insolvent banks for several years, running. In a...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

17/6/18: ECB's Shift of Gears Presents Another Set of Risks

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My article for Business Post from Friday covering ECB's latest announcements on QE and interest rates:  https://www.businesspost.ie/op...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

28/9/17: Schauble: A Requiem For Austerity Finance

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My comment for yesterday’s NY Times on Wolfgang Schäuble’s departure from the Finance Ministry post: https://nyti.ms/2k5N2Er  
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

22/5/17: Eurogroup and Greece: Wrestling Defeat from the Claws of Victory

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Today's Eurogroup meeting on Greece ended in no agreement and extends the current tranche negotiations into June 15, the date of the n...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

3/1/17: Euro growth greets 2017 with a bit of a bang

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December marked another month of rising economic activity indicator for the euro area. Eurocoin, a leading growth indicator published by B...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

15/5/16: Don't Rush the Cheers for Eurozone Growth, Yet

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Remember record-busting 0.6% preliminary flash estimate of the first estimate GDP growth figure for Euro area released back in April? Well...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

4/2/16: Tear Gas v Lagarde’s Tears: Greece

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Here’s Greece on pensions reforms: Source:  https://www.rt.com/news/331265-greece-tear-gas-protet/#.VrN56JItCdA.twitter Here’s IMF o...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

14/7/15: Arrears on IMF & No Samurai Bonds Trigger: Greek Bridge Financing Update

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Yesterday, I covered the possible routes to structuring bridge financing for Greece ( see this post with today's earlier update). Via...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

8/7/15: Latest Round of Greece Talks: Smoke, Fire, Grexit

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Summit / Eurogroup takeaways: 1. No progress of any variety beyond the usual agreement to have more talks 2. Short term deal 'weig...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

28/6/15: Grexit with Help: Hans Werner Sinn

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My favourite Bad Dude of German Economics, Hans Werner Sinn on Greek crisis: Orderly Grexit is, in my view, still more disruptive and...
Friday, June 19, 2015

19/6/2015: Greek ELA and ECB... What's the Rationale?

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The price of getting Greece ejected or pushed out of the euro has now risen once again as ECB added to the ELA provided to Greek banks ami...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

11/6/15: What Markets Are Pricing in Greece-Troika ex-IMF Standoff

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Head on collision warning 1: IMF has now left the 'political dialogue' room where Greece and Troika (pardon, Institutions) have be...
Friday, May 15, 2015

15/5/15: Greece on a Wild Rollercoaster Ride

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Greece has become a BitCoin of Europe in terms of volatility, and, man, things are soaring and crashing on a daily basis now. Here are thr...
Saturday, May 9, 2015

9/5/15: Politico and 'Spice Me Up, Scotty' Headlines for Grexit

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Europe's latest media arrival, Politco.eu is an outfit made to thrill... or to add thrill to the banal, boring, grey, stodgy (you name...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

6/5/15: Crunch Time in Greece: Day -t or -t-1

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Just as Greece barely made today's payment of EUR200 million to the IMF (there's much more coming up - http://trueeconomics.blogsp...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

22/4/15: Some morning links on Greek crisis

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Greek crisis is accelerating once again, predictably, given the deadlines and debt redemptions looming. So what's worth reading on the...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

19/4/15: Greece In or Out: Ifo ain't caring much

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Ifo Institute calculated euro system-wide losses from Greek default under two scenarios: Greece remains in the Euro and Greece exits the E...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

1/4/15: H-W Sinn "Europe’s Easy-Money Endgame"

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A very interesting op-ed by Professor Hans-Werner Sinn of German Ifo Institute for Project Syndicate:  http://www.project-syndicate.org/co...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

7/3/15:Euro Area GDP per capita: the legacy of the crisis

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I have posted previously on the decline in GDP per capita during the current crises across the euro area states, the US and UK. Here is an...