Smart Reads July 16, 2012
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View ArticleSmart Reads August 9, 2012
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View ArticleFT column: Blame the great men for Europe’s crisis
By Gideon Rachman “This is what you have to do, if you want the people to build statues of you on horseback.” Valéry Giscard d’Estaing was doubtless being whimsical when he urged his colleagues to make...
View ArticleThe Estonian take on Greece’s woes
If Greek citizens aren’t angry enough at the condescending and ignorant manner in which northern Europeans discuss their plight, I invite them to inspect the opinions of Jürgen Ligi, Estonia’s finance...
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In the Picture: Greece and Germany
German chancellor Angela Merkel with Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras on October 9 in Athens (Thanassis Stavrakis/AFP/GettyImages) The last time Angela Merkel visited Greece was in 2007 – which,...
View ArticleGreek self-harm and the Lagarde list
Gideon Rachman blogs on how damaging the trial of Costas Vaxevanis will be for Greece. Continue reading »
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Trouble in t’troika
With friends like these.... Jean-Claude Juncker and Christine Lagarde. (AFP) It’s not as if the troika of eurozone rescue lenders never falls out, but usually it takes a not-in-front-of-the-children...
View ArticleThe IMF: we were right about being wrong. But normally we aren’t.
There was a big kerfuffle in October when the IMF made a point of saying that it (along with a bunch of other forecasters) had underestimated the effect of fiscal tightening on European economic growth...
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Hollande and anti-austerity rhetoric
(AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, Pool) Listening to François Hollande’s comments on his flying visit to Greece earlier this week was like hearing a reprise of his electoral campaign, in which he promised...
View ArticleWhat Thatcher got right about the euro
In the week of Margaret Thatcher’s funeral – and with the euro-crisis bubbling along – it is interesting to take a look back at what Thatcher had to say about the single currency. Much of the...
View ArticleSmart Reads June 7, 2013
♦The US National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading internet companies. Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story for the Guardian, has been focused on...
View ArticleGerman elections: the Greek view
It’s no secret in Athens that austerity-weary Greeks would like to see a grand coalition emerge from Sunday’s elections in Germany. The participation in government of Peer Steinbrück and his Social...
View ArticleIs the crackdown on Golden Dawn a good idea?
The arrest of the leader and deputy leader of Golden Dawn – alongside other Golden Dawn MPs and party members – has been greeted with applause by liberals inside and outside Greece. There is little...
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Greece’s markets return: sugar-coating a harsh reality
While officials at the debt management agency prepare to trumpet Greece’s return to international capital markets, for long-suffering Athenians it is just another day marked by anti-austerity protests...
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Pros and cons of investors’ new found love for Europe
The news that Greece is returning to the markets as an issuer of sovereign-debt is symbolic of the resurgence of interest in Europe among international – and particularly US – investors. As ever there...
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Too early for crisis-hit Greece to claim victory
The consensus, such as it is, on the eurozone crisis was neatly summed up on Monday by Hugo Dixon, author and editor at large of Reuters News: “The euro crisis is sleeping, not dead.” What about the...
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Impact of six-year Greek recession laid bare
Greece’s latest annual survey of living standards, published on Monday by the country’s independent statistical agency Elstat, highlights the deepening impact on households of a wrenching six-year...
View ArticleSmart Reads 11 December 2014
Bahrain’s royal family has built up vast private wealth, including a $900m portfolio of UK real estate, after embarking on development projects on disputed reclaimed land in the Gulf kingdom, an FT...
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