Greek Default: The Troika Prepares to Engage Reverse Gear
By John Ward http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/greek-default-the-troika-prepares-to-engage-reverse-gear/ The Troika continues to avoid using real money, and damns Athens with leaks Wolfgang Schauble spent most of the weekend muttering about Greeks not fulfilling the bailout clauses, until…
Exclusive: Why These First Greek Bailout ‘Monies’ Are a Myth
By John Ward http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/exclusive-why-these-first-greek-bailout-monies-are-a-myth/#comments 130 billion euro EFSF sits unused as Draghi manufactures the 66 billion in ‘non-cash bonds’ earmarked for Athens. Regler banks on the markets to supply the rest. As I…
Exclusive: Why Greece Cannot Be Allowed To Survive & Why Merkel is in Such a Hurry to Get to Fiskalpakt
by John Ward http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/exclusive-why-greece-cannot-be-allowed-to-survive-why-merkel-is-in-such-a-hurry-to-get-to-fiskalpakt/ ANALYSIS: Why Berlin, Washington, the German Constitution, the Fiscal Union and the Greek bailout are unstoppable forces hitting immovable objects. Quite a few of you will already be aware…
Greece: Erdogan in Cyprus Annexation Threat
By John Ward http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/greece-erdogan-in-cyprus-annexation-threat/ …as Lala Papademos sets Greek election for April 29th Wannabe EU member Turkey yesterday threatened to annex part of the EU One of either Manuelo Barroso or Lucas Papademos…
Greece Falters in Debt Talks with Creditors
Louise Armitstead, The Telegraph February 5, 2012 http://tgr.ph/xe4upV The Greek prime minister has failed to secure a bondholder agreement despite appealing for help from the bosses of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the…
We’re on the Brink, Warns Greece Ahead of EU Summit
Greece faces “the spectre of bankruptcy and all the dire consequences that entails”, the Greek prime minister warned last night. James Kirkup, The Telegraph, UK, 01-29-2012 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9048157/Were-on-the-brink-warns-Greece-ahead-of-summit.html Lucas Papademos said that unless the country’s…