Greece: Why is it so Important? (Part 2)
With Greece defaulting tomorrow, my post two weeks ago “Greece: Why is it so important?” seems more eerily prescient than I feared back then. I said the Greek government isn’t […]
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Why Greeks should vote No
The game of chicken is over. There is no stepping back from the promise of a referendum, and if there is a future ‘deal’, it won’t be with the current […]
The Effects of Austerity: Ireland vs Greece
Before the next crunch-time comes for Grexit negotiations on Monday, let’s study why austerity hasn’t worked in Greece, and why Ireland, by contrast, didn’t seem to have suffered adverse consequences. The openness […]
Greece: Why is it so important?
It’s often been said in the last days that Greece represents less than 2% of the Eurozone’s GDP, so we shouldn’t spend so much energy on the whole Greek situation, […]
For Whom Tolls the Bell?
In an inversion of the closing of Tsipras’ op-ed in Le Monde, we might ask: Does the bell really toll for Europe, or just for Greece? The game of the […]
