Category: Eurozone Debt Crisis
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, July 06, 2015
With Yanis Gone, Now Troika Heads Must Roll / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Raul_I_Meijer
Now that Yanis Varoufakis has resigned, in the kind of unique fashion and timing that shows us who the real men are, it’s time to clear the other side of the table as well. The new finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, should not have to face the same faces that led to Europe’s painful defeat in yesterday’s Greek referendum.
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Monday, July 06, 2015
Delusional Greeks Commit Mass Hara-Kiri / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Atlantic_Perspective
Pride and ignorance won over logics and basic common sense. With the banks already closed and food quickly running out in supermarkets, Greece is now just a few days away from plunging into total chaos. Delusional Greeks, led by their delusional government, believe they have the upper hand. A small bankrupt country, dependent on foreign imports, decides to bite the hand that feeds it. The reason: “Ah, this will show Europe! Now they know who they are dealing with”!Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, July 06, 2015
Syriza Convinces Greece to Commit Suicide, GrExit Beckons, Market Reaction / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Syriza has successfully managed to convince the mass of the people of Greece of their victim hood at the hands of the evil Troika and thus to vote NO in a referendum engineered for such an outcome as phrased by a question which basically boiled down to "Do you want Austerity", "YES or NO", to which obviously on face value 90% would be inclined to vote NO. However, it had been hoped that most Greeks would be able to see through Syriza's thick propaganda smoke screen that in recent days had been ramping up the message of a virtual paradise to follow a NO vote.
Sunday, July 05, 2015
Forget 'Haircut', Instead Syriza Plans Beheading of Greek Bank Depositors, Theft of Deposits / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Greeks voting YES or NO won't make any difference to what I see as a near certainty of the Greek banks NOT reopening Tuesday, and it is not just because the banks won't have the euro bank notes in their vaults, it's because they are ALL insolvent and have been so for the past 5 years where the only thing that had prevented a collapse of the Greek banking system was generous and I mean GENEROUS support from the Euro-zone's ECB central bank that has literally financed every withdrawal from the Greek banks for the past 5 years, right up until Syriza announced its baldrick-esk cunning plan for a Referendum. That's over Euro 120 billion Euro-zone tax payers funds paid into the Greek banks to finance ALL withdrawals that amounts to 50% of the original total Greek bank deposits.
Sunday, July 05, 2015
Independence Day for Greece / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Raul_I_Meijer
I hardly ever go out in the morning, the first 7-8 hours of every single day are taken up by reading and writing. But today I did, to feel the mood in the city. Not sure I got it, though. Everything’s quiet. It may not help that I’m staying smack in the middle of the Acropolis tourist area (still haven’t figured out why 90% of them are American).
Sunday, July 05, 2015
Greece Referendum Vote Result Forecast Yes Win, But Depression Will Continue / Economics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Its referendum day for a possible doomsday for Greece where the marxist Syriza government has been hell bent on engineering a Greek exit from the euro-zone ever since its election victory 6 months ago, towards which it has been working step by step attempting to trick the 70% of the Greece electorate who have consistently stated they wish to remain within the euro-zone resulting in a convoluted and confusing referendum question called on short notice that Syriza hopes will convince the majority to vote NO to the euro-zone and europe.
Saturday, July 04, 2015
Will Greece Commit Suicide? Syriza Propaganda and Greek Mass Delusion / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The countdown to Sunday's Greek gobbledygook question Referendum that few understand is resulting in ever increasing intensity of propaganda that flows from the game playing marxist Syria government that long since left reality behind as the lies of what the crisis is all about keep compounding so as to convince an increasingly delusional Greek electorate that they are the victims of an evil Troika when the truth is the exact opposite.
Firstly, the Greek crisis is NOT about debt! For if it were then Greece would have gone bankrupt 5 years ago!
Friday, July 03, 2015
The Troika Turns Europe Into A Warzone / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Raul_I_Meijer
So now they do it. Now the IMF comes out with a report that says Greece needs hefty debt restructuring.
Mind you, their numbers are still way off the mark, in the end it’s going to be easily double what they claim. Not even a Yanis Varoufakis haircut will do the trick.
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Friday, July 03, 2015
Greece's So-Called Austerity / Economics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Steve_H_Hanke
It's hard to find anything written or spoken about Greece that doesn't contain a great deal of hand wringing about the alleged austerity -- brutal fiscal austerity -- that the Greek government has been forced to endure at the hands of the so-called troika. This is Alice in Wonderland economics. It supports my 95 percent rule: Ninety-five percent of what you read about economics and finance is either wrong or irrelevant.
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Friday, July 03, 2015
Capital Controls and a Bank Holiday in Greece… Here’s How You Can Profit / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Casey_Research
By Nick Giambruno
For the unprepared, it happens like a mugging…
When you hear a central banker or politician deny that something is going to happen to bank depositors, you can almost be certain that it will happen. And probably soon.
Thursday, July 02, 2015
Varoufakis´ Game Theory Mistake, and Why he was Wrong / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Atlantic_Perspective
The Greek finance minister is supposed to be a master in the Game Theory. But like all other theories, the Game Theory is based on assumptions. And Varoufakis got his assumptions wrong. In this short article we explain why.
The whole Greek strategy has been based on the assumption that “if we default, Europe is screwed”. Is it? No.
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Thursday, July 02, 2015
Greece's Varoufakis: I will Resign if there's a 'Yes' Vote / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Bloomberg
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis told Bloomberg Television's Guy Johnson that he'll quit if Greece votes to accept creditors' bailout proposals in Sunday's referendum.
Johnson directly asked him "If there's a yes vote come Monday night, you will not be Finance Minister" and Varaufakis responded: "I will not."
Varoufakis also said that he would "prefer to cut my arm off" than sign a deal that fails to restructure Greece's debt.
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Thursday, July 02, 2015
Greece's Referendum / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Alasdair_Macleod
This coming Sunday Greece will hold its referendum. The question to be asked is not, as the foreign press initially reported it, about leaving the euro. It is about accepting or rejecting the troika's bail-out terms.
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Thursday, July 02, 2015
Greek Marxists vs. the IMF / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Steve_H_Hanke
With the failure of the Greek government to make a scheduled payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), we have moved from high drama to low farce. The Marxists who are running the show in Athens have scored a first: Greece is the first so-called advanced economy to miss an IMF payment in the Fund's 71-year history.
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Thursday, July 02, 2015
Greek Debt Crisis: "Too late to prepare now" - Video / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: EWI
An Elliott wave perspective on the Greek crisis
Today, I got on the phone with Brian Whitmer, editor of our monthly European Financial Forecast.
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Thursday, July 02, 2015
The Greek Stress Test & The Reality Of Incremental Changes / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Dan_Amerman
With the Greek banks closing, capital controls being imposed, and the unwillingness of the European Central Bank to expand its emergency liquidity assistance program - the stability of the global financial system is officially in play. Nothing is set in stone yet, but a looming Greek default and potential economic catastrophe in Greece is setting elements into motion on a global basis that have the ability to impact many things.
Thursday, July 02, 2015
Forget Drachmas Greece Syriza Government Could Instruct Central Bank to Print Euros! / Currencies / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Nadeem_Walayat
This week Greece started to default on its debt repayments. However, unlike other countries that have gone bankrupt in the past, Greece as part of the Euro-zone officially cannot print money and inflate the purchase power of debt, wages and savings away. In exchange for this Greece enjoys monetary stability i.e. low inflation which means the only way to deal with the structural deficit that is generating the debt is to CUT government spending and wages so as to make Greece more competitive.
Wednesday, July 01, 2015
German Bunds See no GrExit / Interest-Rates / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Ashraf_Laidi
The Bunds-Euro relationship remains intact, as both continue to converge along the crucial trendline support since the April bottom. With yet another yields bounce off the support today, bunds are further eliminating Grexit scenario for now as does the single currency.
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Wednesday, July 01, 2015
Greek Referendum on IMF Ultimatum / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: BATR
This is a test. Will the internationalist banksters force extraction of their ill-gotten interest payments to bail out their reckless derivative trades gone wrong, or will a sovereign country abandon the chains of financial elite coercion and renounce their IMF and ECB debt? Make no mistake about it, Greece has lived high on the hog for decades and has serious internal problems. There is no free ride. However, the pain from the coming default is necessary to shed the yoke of a failed European Union construct.
Wednesday, July 01, 2015
Definitive Solution to the Greek Crisis / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Submissions
Atlantic Perspective writes: Most of the commentary on the Greek situation has focused on whether Greece should leave or stay in the Eurozone, and the dire consequences for Greece and the world´s financial markets should Greece default.
But has anyone come up with a credible solution? We believe we have one.
Before laying down the proposal, we need to check a few critical facts:
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