Another day, another deadline missed in Greece
What was Sunday’s deadline of 11 a.m. Monday for a decision by Greece’s warring political parties to accept the conditions required by the troika of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission before the country can get its next bundle of rescue cash passed without a decision. What we got instead was a decision to move the deadline to Tuesday.
Saturday Night (on Sunday) Quarterback says, For the week ahead expect…
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...The “agreement” from the European summit is singularly devoid of real progress–so why were European markets up today?
Maybe the crucial explanation for why European stock markets were up today, and Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese bond yields are down is speculation on the size of the next offer of three-year loans by the European Central Bank on February 29. Speculation now is that banks could take down even more money this time.
Show me the money! Nothing else much counts in Greek debt crisis now
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...Germany demands that Greece give up control of its national budget–is this the price that Greece won’t pay for a bailout?
Is this the big showdown? The moment when Germany and the other deficit hawks in the EuroZone finally pull the plug on Greece by making the price of more bailout money too high for the Greeks to pay?
Saturday Night Quarterback says, For the week ahead expect…
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...Let the horse-trading begin: An agreement between Greece and its bondholders now only needs the IMF to sign on
Can Germany bribe—I mean—successfully negotiate with the International Monetary Fund to break the Greek debt stalemate? Negotiations remain bogged down on what interest rate the new bonds issued to replace existing Greek debt will carry.