You are here

Greece

Great Timing Award: Wolfgang Schäuble Says "Greece Must Reform Or Leave Eurozone"

Great Timing Award: Wolfgang Schäuble Says "Greece Must Reform Or Leave Eurozone"

Submitted by Michael Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

On the same day Matteo Renzi suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of alleged “populists” in Italy, German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble ruled out debt relief for Greece ahead of a eurozone finance minister meeting. 

Schäuble says Greece Must Reform or Leave Eurozone.

Michael Hudson Warns "Millions Around The World Are Fleeing Neoliberal Policy"

Economist Michael Hudson tells The RealNews network that neoliberal policy will pressure U.S. citizens to emigrate, just as it caused millions to leave Russia, the Baltic States, and now Greece in search of a better life...

Background

A research team from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York estimates 875,000 deaths in the United States in year 2000 could be attributed to social factors related to poverty and income inequality.

 

Exposing The ECB's Illusory Independence

Following Mario Draghi's seemingly constant mention of The ECB's credibility during yesterday's press conference, none other than ECB member (and Austrian national bank chief) Ewald Nowotny exclaimed rather oddly that "The ECB is the most independent central bank in the world." This was apparently more than former Greek FinMin Yanis Varoufakis could handle as he unleashed a scathing op-ed to explain why, in fact,  The ECB is the least independent central bank exclaiming that "the pretense of independence serves as a fig leaf for interventions th

Pages