Hopes for Greece bailout deal rise sharply as Athens gives ground | Business | The Guardian. Filed under: Austerity Tagged: Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Syriza
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Alberta Politics: ‘Alberta is not Greece yet’ … Why do we have to pay for Jack Mintz’s mythmaking?
PHOTOS: Calgary in the near future, as fancifully described by the usual suspects at the University of Calgary, if the NDP doesn’t start delivering Conservative polices with alacrity. Below: U of Calgary Professor Jack Mintz, grabbed from Imperial Oil’s annual report; former Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge. VICTORIA, B.C.
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Repeat after me: Alberta isn’t Greece
Last week it was Andrew Coyne; this week it’s Jack Mintz. Seems all the National Post’s favourite conservative commentators have suddenly decided to offer their Very Serious Advice™ to Alberta’s new government. While Coyne made a spurious comparison between raising the minimum wage and instituting a minimum income, Mintz outdoes
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: ‘Making us poorer won’t save Greece’: how pension crisis is hurting its people | World news | The Guardian
‘Making us poorer won’t save Greece’: how pension crisis is hurting its people | World news | The Guardian. Filed under: Austerity Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Greece, pensions
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Drip Feeding Greece Will End in Default
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Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Greece has nothing to lose by saying no to creditors – FT.com
Greece has nothing to lose by saying no to creditors – FT.com. By Wolfgang Münchau So here we are. Alexis Tsipras has been told to take it or leave it. What should he do? The Greek prime minister does not face elections until January 2019. Any course of action
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Greece – A Sad Story of the European Establishment – EU Politics Today – EIN News
Greece – A Sad Story of the European Establishment – EU Politics Today – EIN News. by Robert Savio ROME, Jun 9 2015 (IPS) – Only 50 years of Cold War (and the fact that German Chancellor Angela Merkel grew up in East Germany) can possibly explain the strange political
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Creating an Economy of Need in Greece
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Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Tsipras lambasts ‘absurd proposals’ of creditors for Greece debt-deal failure | Business | The Guardian
Tsipras lambasts ‘absurd proposals’ of creditors for Greece debt-deal failure | Business | The Guardian. Filed under: Crisis, Eurozone crisis, Greece Tagged: Austerity, EU, Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Syriza, Troika
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Why Greece’s Syriza party is not sticking to the script on an IMF deal | Paul Mason | Paul Mason
Why Greece’s Syriza party is not sticking to the script on an IMF deal | Paul Mason | Paul Mason. The leaked IMF document seen by Channel 4 News last weekend effectively signals a three-week endgame in the Greek debt stand-off. The IMF thinks there is “no possibility” that Greece
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: ekathimerini.com | Greece toying with ‘chaos’ has Eichengreen urging lesser evil
By Lenka Ponikelska Greece’s exit from the euro would unleash turmoil whose fallout will far exceed the cost of staying in the currency union, said U.S. economist Barry Eichengreen. Reintroducing the drachma would solve none of Greece’s problems and instead set the stage for “even more chaos and uncertainty,” Eichengreen,
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Would leaving euro be more of a catastrophe for Greece than staying? | Business | The Guardian
Would leaving euro be more of a catastrophe for Greece than staying? | Business | The Guardian. Larry Elliot Yanis Varoufakis rues the day when Greece joined the euro. The Greek finance minister says his country would be better off if it was still using the drachma. Deep down, he
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Greece: The Noose Tightens | Jacobin
Greece: The Noose Tightens | Jacobin. There are only three options remaining for the Syriza government. by Stathis Kouvelakis Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Events in Greece have taken a dramatic turn, and insolvency is at the gates. On April 20, the Greek government issued a decree forcing
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Podcast: The roots of the Greece crisis in European integration and what this means for the future
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/podcast150402-europe.mp3 As the simmering crisis between Greece and the institutions formerly known as the Troika heats up again, it’s a good time to look once more at the roots of the European crisis and what they mean for the possibilities open before Syriza at the present juncture. Greece is being squeezed
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why Syrzia Matters. It’s About a Good Deal More than Austerity. It’s About Salvaging Democracy.
Le Monde reminds all of us why Syrzia matters not just in Greece, but across Europe and even on our side of the North Atlantic. The Greeks don’t need to have the meaning of the word “democracy” explained to them. Even so, they have been given countless lectures since voting
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Greece: Phase Two | Jacobin
Very interesting interview with Syriza MP and SOAS Professor of Political Economy Costas Lapavitsas. Greece: Phase Two | Jacobin. Much — too much — has been written in a journalistic, superficial vein about Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and last month’s negotiations with the European Union. But now that the lines
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: THE EURO, THE DRACHMA AND GREECE: limited options in an impossible situation
Jean-Francois Ponsot Associate Professor of Economics, Université de Grenoble (France) and Louis-Philippe Rochon Associate Professor of Economics, Laurentian University (Canada) Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics ___________________ The final agreement between Greece and the Eurogroup is a disappointment for anyone who held high hopes that Greece would have taken away more
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Janine Berg writes about the need for strong public policy to counter the trend of growing inequality. And Gillian White traces the ever-increasing divergence between worker productivity and wages in an interview with Jan Rivkin: White: Some say that the decrease of collective
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: The rise of Europe’s new Left
The rise of Europe’s new Left. By Bryan Evans Filed under: Europe, Socialism Tagged: Austerity, Europe, Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Podemos, Spain, Syriza
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: European Banks vs. Greek Labour
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