National Business Review
Tsipras’ win is Merkel’s failure
The biggest loser in Greece’s snap election was not even on the ballot paper.
Greece
Business Spectator
The euro crisis has become a game of chicken
The most important question of what the Greek election result will mean for the euro crisis has not been answered satisfactorily.
Business Spectator
Merkel’s U-turn on Greece reveals Germany’s real motivation
Should the 25 January elections result in a Syriza-led government, we will find out whether the Germans can actually succeed in kicking Greece out of the euro and also whether …
Business Spectator
A Greek olive branch for Steve Keen
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the eurozone is an unworkable construction which will condemn its members to repeated crises like the one first experienced in Greece.
Business Spectator
Greece’s presidential gamble could trigger the next eurozone crisis
In late 2009, Greece started the eurozone crisis.
Business Spectator
Miracles and mirages in the eurozone wonderland
In that faraway wonderland that it is the eurozone, nothing is quite what it seems.
Business Spectator
Why the markets got it wrong on Europe
As government debt in the European periphery becomes a riskier investment, the yields on periphery government yields are not going up as one might expect.
Business Spectator
Athens 2014 is not Sarajevo 1914
World War I cannot and should not be used as a justification for a European integration agenda that is visibly failing.
Business Spectator
Greece is the word that could sink Merkel
By announcing the next Greek package before the election, Schäuble is manoeuvring Germany into his much preferred position of actively supporting closer European integration.
Business Spectator
New largesse stars in Greece’s theatre of the absurd
For as long as Greece remains trapped in a cycle of troika consultations, it will not escape its predicament of economic decline.