These credit default swaps on U.S. treasuries are now worthless 🍿 https://t.co/FQUZXdc38m — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) May 28, 2023 h/t Simian_Stacker
ATHENS — Greece will go to the polls again as early as June 25, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis confirming Monday that he will not try to build a coalition government after dominating an election over the weekend but failing to …
by Shaun Richards A subject which has exercised me greatly over what is now more than a decade is the economic depression which was inflicted on Greece. For newer readers it was accompanied by claims of success – “shock and …
DEVELOPING: 2 trains collide in northern Greece, killing at least 6 and injuring dozens more https://t.co/0BZ4UTTay9 — BNO News Live (@BNODesk) February 28, 2023 https://twitter.com/_/status/1630710578829221888 https://twitter.com/_/status/1630712387199172608 https://twitter.com/_/status/1630713163803942913 Passenger train which crashed in northern Greece was carrying more than 350 people; …
High energy prices and soaring living costs have triggered strikes and protests across Europe this month, including in Germany, France and Spain. The nationwide walkout in Greece – the second this year called by private and public sector unions representing …
by globeworldmap How the worldwide economic crisis of 2008 manifested in Greece. It examines how the debt repayment program, which the IMF, ECB and European Commission, which is likened to the troika, implemented on Greece and which will cause a …
by Chris Black If Greece shoots down Turkish jets threatening and violating their air space, who is NATO going to declare war on? Turkey, due to size and fact that it is a Muslim country in Asia (strategically important to …
While it appears the wallet is only being used as a substitute for driver’s licenses and other basic ID cards, the government states that they intend to expand the wallet to be more all-encompassing. “In the future, more documents are going …
Laboratory Greece: The Crisis That Changed Our Lives (2019), a documentary on the euro crisis in Greece. Italian director Jacopo Brogi confronts the fact that military, intelligence and US domination over the country’s United Kingdom after World War II continues …
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Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, Fresh off of the US targeting a series of companies involved in an Iran-linked oil smuggling network, the US has now seized an oil tanker near Greece, taking the Iranian oil within to be sent to the …
by Chris Black This is in one of the most conservative countries in Europe, and nobody can stop these people. Because democracy. Speaking of democratic values, if Golden Dawn hadn’t been banned, they’d probably be at 30% right now. Reuters: …
«Money doesn’t vanish into thin air, it goes into someone’s pocket.» «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe»
The documentary examines how the worldwide economic crisis of 2008 manifested in Greece. It examines how the debt repayment program, which the IMF, ECB and European Commission, which is likened to the troika, implemented on Greece and which will cause …
by confoundedinterest17 European PIGS must face the fire … again. Once upon a time, European PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) saw incredible spikes in their sovereign yields related to Greek credit default contagion. But the European Central Bank (ECB), World Bank …
Sea froze in Greece in a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon that appeared on Tuesday at the village Sagiada in Thesprotia, Epirus. Sea ice, usually found in more northern and polar oceans, appeared in Greece as the country was hit with sub-zero temperatures. …
Greece's restrictions to brought forward from Jan. 3 to tomorrow, starting at 6 a.m. #Greece #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/ivfDFL75pv — Derek Gatopoulos (@dgatopoulos) December 29, 2021 • Omicron now considered the dominant variant in Greece. • Vaccination mandate policy will be reviewed …
Residents and tourists are evacuated, and British firefighters fly in to help as Greece wildfires rage out of control. Greek authorities asked for international assistance, after two people died and thousands have lost their homes. Sky’s Ali Fortescue reports.
Riot in front of Parliament building in Athens. Protest revolves around the government’s enforcement of the vaccine. pic.twitter.com/5yRyP88cWT — Henry Huber (@HenryHuber_) July 21, 2021 Tense situation this evening in front of the #Greek Parliament in #Athens. The police use …
by Shaun Richards Later today we get the policy announcement from the ECB or European Central Bank but I am not expecting much if anything. Perhaps some fiddling with the monthly purchases of the emergency component ( called PEPP) of …
President Biden on Wednesday pitched a new plan to Americans before a joint session of Congress: more spending. The just-released $1.8 trillion plan, presented just weeks after Biden signed a $1.9 trillion in COVID relief spending into law, includes “free” community …
Greece’s parliament on Wednesday began debate on a resolution to demand the payment of German war crime reparations. The issue has long been disputed by Berlin. ‘These demands are always active. They were never set aside by Greece,’ parliament chairman …
by Charles Hugh-Smith A feature of the economic crisis that enfolded in Greece was the fantasy that economic growth would quickly recover. It seems hard to believe now that anyone could have expected the economy to grow at 2% ot …
by Shaun Richards Today brings a development which will no doubt be trumpeted across the media and it is explained by this from Reuters yesterday, Greece will return to bond markets with a five-year issue “in the near future, subject …
The New Democracy and Golden Dawn coalition is positioned to storm the Greek Parliament in a matter of months! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAop1LiVJBM
by Martin Armstrong This winter is once again extremely brutal in Europe. Exceptionally heavy snow has fallen as far south as Greece in the range of even 3 to 5 feet in various places. This is the third year of …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4lgZl85aac Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Athens on Tuesday, as the first post-bailout economic budget went to vote in the Greek parliament. Protesters with banners and signs marched towards the Greek parliament, while chanting anti-austerity slogans. http://www.therebel.media/watch-jack-… …
by Shaun Richards Let us take the opportunity to be able to look at some better news from Greece which came from its statistics office yesterday. The available seasonally adjusted data indicate that in the 3 rd quarter of 2018 …
by Doug French via Mises Wire The New York Times reminded us that two things which go together are a currency crisis and prostitution. The featured story on October 28 was the red light district in uber-depressed Athens where “Dimitra, a middle-aged woman …
