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Showing posts with label troika. Show all posts
Showing posts with label troika. Show all posts
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Bill Mitchell — Greek austerity – a denial of basic human rights, penalty should be imprisonment

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I have just finished reading a report published by the Transnational Institute (TNI), which is an “international research and advocacy inst...
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Thursday, August 9, 2018

Michael Roberts — Greece: on parole

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Backgrounder on Greece (and the IMF and Eurocrats). A sad tale of elite rule and rent extraction off the back of ordinary workers with no po...
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Monday, November 27, 2017

Bill Mitchell — Massive Eurozone infrastructure deficit requires urgent redress

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The latest – EIB Investment Report 2017/2018 – published last week by the European Investment Bank tells anyone who cares to take those E...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Bill Mitchell — Latest Greek bailout – a recipe designed to fail

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I have been looking at the latest Greek bailout deal between the Greek government and the European Commission/IMF), which was concluded las...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Lara Merling — Greece has a Private Debt Crisis and We Can Blame the Troika

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The Greek public debt debacle and the bailout received by the government from the European Central Bank (ECB), the European Commission (EC)...
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Monday, May 8, 2017

Greece Passes New Austerity for New Loans — Sharmini Peries interviews Michael Hudson

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Michael Hudson: ​I wouldn't call it a negotiation. Greece is simply being dictated to. There is no negotiation at all. It's been to...
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Thursday, May 4, 2017

Michael Roberts — Memoirs of an erratic Marxist [Yanis Varoufakis]

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Varoufakis more erratic than Marxist? Roberts contends that there is no solution for Greece within the structure of capitalism as insti...
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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Bill Mitchell — The destruction of Greece – “only a down payment” according to the IMF

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On April 22, 2017, the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance, Pier Carlo Padoan presented a briefing to the 25th Meeting of the Internati...
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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Edward Harrison — The negotiations over Greece aren’t about Greece

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Earlier today, I was listening to an interview with IMF head Christine Lagarde dance around the issue of the unsustainability of Greece’s d...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Bill Mitchell — Greece still should exit and escape the grip of the vandals

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Greece is back in the news as the IMF, the Germans and the European Commission slug it out pretending to talk tough and propose solutions t...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Bill Black — When will the EU and the ECB Stop Torturing the Greeks?

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The troika refers to the European Union (EU), European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF, traditional...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Mark Weisbrot — The Deep Economic Roots of Italy’s Political Troubles

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In one important sense there are similarities between the rise of Trump and the fall of Renzi. Both are the result of the long-term failur...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Michael Hudson — Review of James Galbraith, Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice (2016)

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Galbraith expressed his “epiphany” already in 2010 that a “market-based” solution was a euphemism for anti-labor austerity and a reversal o...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Julian Assange — IMF Internal Meeting Predicts Greek 'Disaster', Threatens to Leave Troika

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The Greek situation is "evolving."  Remaining in the Troika seems an increasingly hard sell internally for the IMF, because n...
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Sunday, April 3, 2016

Bill Mitchell — Fiscal policy is a potent instrument for productivity growth

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Sometimes we have to take a longer look at things to see the present in perspective. Greece has been a living experiment for the neo-libera...
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Sunday, February 21, 2016

system failure — The European industry of sell-off public property

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Just like Michael Hudson predicted. the unbalanced evolution of homo sapiens The European industry of sell-off public property system...
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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Yanis Varoufakis — How the ‘Troika Effect’ was dubbed the ‘Varoufakis Effect’ – Project Syndicate Op-Ed and beyond

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As part of an impressive campaign to discredit the Athens Spring , and those of us who continue to honour and propagate its spirit, a cabal...
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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Bill Mitchell — The total Greek election farce – RIP democracy

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Last weekend, the Greece people (or a declining proportion of them) elected a new national government. It was a farce. There was no competi...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Alexrpt — Varoufakis, ‘During my time working in the Eurozone, I encountered evil that would be impossible to make up’

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Yanis on the warpath. Red Pill Times Varoufakis, ‘During my time working in the Eurozone, I encountered evil that would be impossible to m...
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Saturday, September 5, 2015

James Galbraith and J. Luis Martin — The poisoned chalice

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Part two of the insider view of negotiations between Greece and the Eurogroup. When is a rescue not a rescue but a seizure of assets? Inter...
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