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Europe’s slide into deflation, and what to do about it – Interviewed for...
Europe is in the clasps of the deflationary forces that resulted directly from its inane handling of the Eurozone crisis. In this interview, I discuss deflation and low-flation and suggest a particular...
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How the Greek Banks Secured an Additional, Hidden €41 billion Bailout from...
In 2013 Greek taxpayers borrowed from the rest of Europe’s taxpayers €41 billion to pump into the Greek banks. This is well known. What is not known is that, also in 2013/4, the Greek banks received an...
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Is Europe Reforming? At the Bellwether Economist Conference
On 15th May, the Bellwether Economist Conference (see program) posed the broader question “Who will fill the funding gap?” and the narrower but crucial question “Is Europe Reforming?” In this post the...
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Another shady Greek banking deal: An exchange with Klaus Kastner on the...
The sordid relationship between the owners of the Bank of Pireus and MIG (a holding company that used to own one of the two failed Cypriot banks, as well as a swathe of Greek companies) is well...
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The ECB’s Stress Tests and our Banking Dis-Union: A case of gross...
Last Sunday the ECB published its quality assurance results, its stress tests of our systemic banks. It was, from where I am standing, a sad day. Back in 2010, the European Banking Authority (EBA)...
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Discussing the ECB’s stress tests on ‘Boom Bust, RT tv
For the tv interview click here or the photo above (and jump to 21′). A related, analytical, article, can be found here. Filed under: Banking Crisis, European Crisis
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ECB stress tests: The view of an insider – Guest post by Klaus Kastner
Klaus Kastner is a former banker from Austria who is also ‘afflicted’ with a deep concern for Greece; witness his excellent blog ObservingGreece. He has commented many times on this blog and, on the...
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Today’s Eurozone seen from an investor’s perspective – Keynote (audio)
On 30th October I was invited to address a meeting of German, Austrian and Swiss pension fund managers on how they should make sense of the Eurozone’s current state of play. In this keynote (click...
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Burst Greek Bubbles, Spooked Fund Managers: A cause for restrained celebration
The international press is replete with reports of how London-based fund managers were spooked when they heard of SYRIZA’s views on the nature of Greece’s conundrum and on the party’s intention to work...
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Varoufakis and Tsakalotos on the Eurozone institutions and bank bailouts –...
Two SYRIZA ministers for the price of one! Here you can find audio of our talks at the INET-OECD 9th April conference on the subject of ‘Eurozone institutions during the bank bailout negotiations’....
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Britain, Greece & the Struggle for a Decent Future – Emmanuel Centre, London,...
Jump to 1:04:50 for my address Filed under: Banking Crisis, European Crisis, Greek Crisis, Post-MinFin missives
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The Great Greek Bank Robbery – Project Syndicate Op-Ed
Click on the icon above or hereFiled under: Banking Crisis, European Crisis, Greek Crisis, Post-MinFin missives
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Greece’s two currencies – Project Syndicate Op-Ed
ATHENS – Imagine a depositor in the US state of Arizona being permitted to withdraw only small amounts of cash weekly and facing restrictions on how much money he or she could wire to a bank account in...
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The Labour Party’s 2016 NEW ECONOMICS lecture series: Mazzucato, Stiglitz,...
The UK’s Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, is convening a series of public lectures to broaden the debate around economics in Britain. “Economic Policy: from market fixing to market creating and...
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Is Finance Fit To Purpose?
Yanis Varoufakis speaking at John McDonnell’s Economic Lecture Series Event, City of London, 30th March 2016Filed under: Banking Crisis, DiEM, Politics and Economics, Post-MinFin missives
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The Politics of Negative Interest Rates – Project Syndicate op-ed
ATHENS – Objects of desire come at a cost. Only bad things, like toxic waste, have a negative price, the equivalent of a fee payable to anyone willing to make them disappear. Does this mean that...
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The Greek Plan for Growth & Recovery: Two documents the Ministry of Finance...
Now that Greece’s Third Memorandum of Understanding has passed (see here for my annotated version), after the SYRIZA government surrendered on 12th July 2015, it is perhaps of interest to compare the...
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Reflections on the nature & causes of global financial uncertainty –...
On 4th December 2016 I delivered the keynote at the RiskMinds International risk management conference in Amsterdam. A summary of my talk, compiled by the organisers, follows. What’s worse? Being a...
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Discussing the ECB's stress tests on 'Boom Bust, RT tv
For the tv interview click here or the photo above (and jump to 21′). A related, analytical, article, can be found here.
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ECB stress tests: The view of an insider – Guest post by Klaus Kastner
Klaus Kastner is a former banker from Austria who is also ‘afflicted’ with a deep concern for Greece; witness his excellent blog ObservingGreece. He has commented many times on this blog and, on the...
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