Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Greek deal struck? The saga continues ...

Peter Foster: The Agreekment paradox:
They’re going to do what? ...  Is this script being written by Lewis Carroll or Samuel Beckett? ... after a 17-hour negotiating session ... there was an “Agreekment,” part of which is another Euros 86 billion of debt.

... has to be voted on both by the Greek Parliament on Wednesday (that won’t go well) and various European parliaments. ...  the Germans are victims here too. They will have to take the biggest brush cut when the debt clippers come out again.

... This mess starts and ends with belief that you can socialize away economic problems. Unfortunately that is the foundation on which the European Union’s “social democracy” is built.  It was never sustainable, and Monday’s bizarre start of yet another round of negotiations indicates that it is unravelling fast. 
See also:
Here’s what could still go wrong

Greece’s economic lessons for us


Friday, July 10, 2015

What should Greece do?

Lawrence Solomon's advice (or is it just a prediction?):
... Let’s first stipulate that Greek governments are 100 per cent responsible for borrowing money they knew they had no hope of repaying, and that they should be deemed fully culpable for their actions. Let’s also stipulate that the foreign banks and their EU enablers are 100 per cent responsible for making irresponsible loans that they knew couldn’t be repaid, and that they too should be deemed fully culpable for their misconduct.

... It has only one sensible choice — to tear up most or all of its debts and start fresh. This course, if navigated by even a half-competent government, could quickly pull Greece out of its seven-year-long depression and lead the country into prosperity....
 Let's see what they do.