“Excessive focus on deficits risks making unemployment problem worse” – Kevin...
Kevin O´Rourke about the Black February Turmoil on the Eurozone “The lack of a federal government was one reason why many economists were sceptical about the Euro in the 1990s. At the time, they were...
View ArticleGreat Recession: a $ 69,3 trillion episode
A $69,3 trillion tragedy, the novel of the Great Recession 2007/2009, by Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues, Janelanaweb.com, 2010 © Wealth destruction: $50 trillion (provisional estimates from Claudio Loser,...
View ArticleTHE FATE OF GREECE – INSIGHTS FROM ATHENS
Greece is dying a slow death, says Jens Bastian, 50, economist, born in Germany and living in Greece since 13 years . Despite a courageous program from the PASOK government that inherited a...
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Portuguese near-default crisis – a rountable in the “black week”
A Conversation about the near-default in Portugal: the need for a clear political perspective A virtual roundtable with 5 economists and financial analysts edited by Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues ©...
View Article“Serial default is a surprisingly universal phenomenon, including the...
FOREWORD: A conversation in the middle of the financial turmoil The old rules of sovereign defaults still apply even to the rich countries and particularly to the “graduated” economies, those who...
View ArticleCinzia Alcidi: “The blanket of guaranties required is too big for many...
Another week of crisis psychology inside the Euro Zone. Ireland jumps to 6th in a default probability worldwide ranking monitored by CMA DataVision. The price of its credit default swaps jumped to more...
View ArticleCURRENCY WARS ALERT – interview with Ben Davies (Hinde Capital)
In an interview Monday with the Financial Times, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), warned of currency wars if the great powers started to use their currencies...
View ArticleKEYNES REVIVAL: the “Bancor” proposal of the 1940s – useful for today?
A virtual round table with three specialists: Paul Davidson, Editor of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, author of John Maynard Keynes (Palgrave Macmillan, September 2007) and The Keynes...
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Yanis Varoufakis: Italy’s collapse will change the Austerian way in Europe
Yanis Varoufakis, 52, a Greek professor and blogger, currently at the Lyndon B. Johnson Graduate School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas, Austin, US, says in a short interview that “neither...
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The new round of the Greek Crisis – an interview with Yanis Varoufakis
«Greece is in the clasps of a triple insolvency: an insolvent state, insolvent banks and an insolvent private sector» YANIS VAROUFAKIS is Professor of Economics at the Division of Political Economy,...
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