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Monthly Archives: July 2015

Debt Restructuring or Default

July 16, 2015by karlstrobl 3 Comments

If you can’t pay from own resources, this is what it comes down to, eventually. It’s definitely not a question of it, but of when. An article in Handelsblatt today […]

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Design Flaws of the Euro, Part 1: The ECB

July 15, 2015by karlstrobl 2 Comments

In many posts I refer much too briefly to the ‘misconstructed’ currency union. I think I need to dedicate a series now to explain in more detail what I mean […]

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The Media Turn Against Schaeuble, but Too Late

July 13, 2015by karlstrobl 2 Comments

This is significant. The hashtag #Thisisacoup is trending massively on Twitter, leading Hugo Dixon, a keen observer of the Greek crisis, to suggest that the Eurozone in general is losing the […]

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The Real Reason Varoufakis had to Go

July 12, 2015by karlstrobl 3 Comments

Varoufakis was too clever to understand politics. It is three years ago that I had an exchange with him on his blog about needing credible threats if one wanted to play […]

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How Will Merkel Square Her Circle?

July 8, 2015by karlstrobl 4 Comments

Here is a quote from Ryszard Legutko, MEP from the conservative group ECR: So if this piece de theatre continues I think we will be more and more confused about […]

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Time to get Angry with Tsipras

July 7, 2015by karlstrobl 2 Comments

I am in utter disbelief: There was an emergency Eurogroup finance ministers meeting, and there will be a Eurogroup leaders meeting in an hour, and Greece turned up without a […]

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A simple message to Europe: From Greece, With Love

July 5, 2015by karlstrobl 4 Comments

Here is what Tsipras should say to Europe. No fancy victory lap rhetoric, just the facts: Greek voters have made their view clear. There is not even a single electoral […]

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The IMF Says Vote No

July 4, 2015by karlstrobl 1 Comment

The IMF has left the realms of delusion over Greek debt sustainability. It now has admitted that it failed to realise the damage austerity would do. In other words the deal which […]

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