Showing posts with label Greek crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greek crisis. Show all posts
Monday, July 30, 2018

30/7/18: Burden Sharing, Reforms and Greece

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Much has been said in recent years about European reforms, recovery, burden-sharing and Greece. Most of it draws links of causality along ...
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...
Friday, February 24, 2017

24/2/17: Delays to second bailout cause spike in Greek risk

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Euromoney covering the Greek crisis (latest iteration) with a comment from myself:  http://www.euromoney.com/Article/3663144/Delays-to-sec...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

25/5/16: IMF's Epic Flip Flopping on Greece

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IMF published the full Transcript of a Conference Call on Greece from Wednesday, May 25, 2016 (see: http://www.imf.org/external/np/tr/2016...

24/5/16: Greek Crisis: Old Can, Old Foot, New Flight

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So Eurogroup has hammered out yet another 'breakthrough deal' with Greece, not even 12 months  after the previous 'breakthroug...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

23/5/16: Greek Debt Sustainability and IMF's Pipe Dreams

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IMF outlined its position on Greek debt sustainability, once again stressing the fact - known to everyone with an ounce of brain left unto...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

11/5/16: 7+1 Steps Guide to Greek Crisis Madness

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Greece is back in the news recently with yet another round of crisis talks and measures. Here's where we stand on the matter. After ...
Friday, April 22, 2016

21/4/16: Drama & Comedy Back: Grexit, Greesis, Whatever

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Back in July last year, I wrote in the Irish Independent about the hen 'latest' Greek debt crisis:  http://www.independent.ie/opin...
Sunday, April 3, 2016

2/4/16: Tsipras: Europe's Cross of Forest Gump and Donald Trump

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The tragedy of Europe is the comedy of Europe. And it is best illustrated in the case of Greece, or by Greece, where the latest debt-relat...
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...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

17/9/15: Greek Crisis: Structural & Institutional Drivers

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A lot has been written about Greek economy, with basically two divergent views (ignoring comical extreme perspectives usually harboured by...
Monday, August 3, 2015

3/8/15: Greek Manufacturing PMI: In the Land of Imaginary Numbers

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Markit Manufacturing PMI for Greece is outright disastrous. Euro area Manufacturing PMI for July came out with a slight decrease on June...
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...
Monday, July 13, 2015

13/7/15: A Promise of a Deal = An Actual Surrender

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So we finally have a 'historic' agreement on Greece. You know the details: Tsipras surrendered on everything, except one thing....
Sunday, July 12, 2015

12/7/15: Instead of Abating, Greek Crisis Just Accelerated

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Per latest reports, Eurogroup estimates Greek funding needs at EUR82-86 billion - a far cry from EUR53.5 billion requested from ESM. EUR10...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

11/7/15: Harder Default for Greece, Less Democracy for All

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My article on the Greek crisis for Irish Independent: impossible mathematics of debt and the political trilemma of sacrificed democracies:...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

5/7/15: Votes are in... What's next for Greece?

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With over 75% of votes counted in the Greek referendum, 61.6% of the votes counted are in favour of 'No'. So what's next?...
Saturday, July 4, 2015

4/7/15: Timeline for Greece and Some Anchoring

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Greece timeline for the weekend: Greece has missed the IMF and ECB payments this week  with both non-payments having potential for trigg...