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How the world sees Greece
Monday, January 13, 2014
Opa! St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church to celebrate cultural heritage with festival
Guests will celebrate Greek culture at the "Fort Lauderdale Greek Festival" to take place at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church Feb. 7-9 ... $25 raffle tickets for a chance to win a 2014 Lexus. "The Festival makes for a wonderful and affordable ...
Alexander The Great Was 'Killed By Toxic Wine,' Scientists Claim
The mystery of why the Greek king of Macedon, ruler of the largest empire in the ancient world, died at just 32 has baffled historians and scientists for over 2,000 years.
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Greek Catholic Church's Priests Warned About Protests
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyGreek Catholic Church's Priests Warned About ProtestsRadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyIn a letter issued on January 13, the ministry called the religious activities of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests on Kyiv's Independence Square in support of antigovernment protesters since December "a violation of Ukrainian legislation regarding ...and more »
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Reilich Gets Acquainted With Greece Town Workers
WROC-TVReilich Gets Acquainted With Greece Town WorkersWROC-TVGreece Town Supervisor Bill Reilich has only been in office a few weeks and is still getting acquainted with the town's close-to 400 employees. On Monday he held the first of four breakfast events to help everyone get to know each other. No tax dollars ...
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Greece in search of dignity, as crisis subsides
European Parliament (press release)Greece in search of dignity, as crisis subsidesEUobserver.comWhat the response from the rest of the eurozone will be is less clear, particularly if Greece attempts to begin the conversation before the European elections in May, potentially provoking a public backlash in creditor countries such as Germany ...Opposition Dissent Tempers Greek Attempts at OptimismNew York TimesGreece at the helm… MEPs have their say ahead of plenary debateEuropean Parliament (press release)Greece: European elections campaign underway,Samaras attacksANSAmedIFA Magazine -Bloomberg -Greek Reporterall 22 news articles »
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Alex Rodriguez -- a victim of hubris in a modern-day Greek tragedy
Alex Rodriguez -- a victim of hubris in a modern-day Greek tragedyFox News (blog)The ancient Greek tragedies involved the downfall of the hero being caused by what the classical scholars call “hubris.” Because human nature remains constant, we know the Greeks were onto something. Hubris causes many heroic figures to fall even in ...and more »
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Greece: Golden Dawn Trio Arrested In Crackdown
Aljazeera.comGreece: Golden Dawn Trio Arrested In CrackdownYahoo News UKThree more members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party have been detained in Greece, marking a dramatic escalation in a government crackdown on the far-right group. The trio are awaiting trial on charges linked to a number of criminal activities ...Greece's Golden Dawn cries foul over links to "criminal" groupeuronewsTwo Golden Dawn MPs imprisoned in GreeceAljazeera.comTwo more Golden Dawn MPs jailed in GreeceTelegraph.co.ukWall Street Journal -Jewish Chronicle -www.worldbulletin.netall 149 news articles »
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Soup kitchens for the Greek middle class
Soup kitchens for the Greek middle classDeutsche WelleSoup kitchens for the Greek middle class. In Greece even the middle class is suffering because of the crisis. Soup kitchens and food donations for the needy are being organized - even in fancy suburbs of Athens. Soup kitchens for the middle class in ...
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Greece profile
Television is Greece's medium of choice, followed by the press, the internet and radio. News, variety programmes, comedy and game shows dominate peak-time TV. There are about a dozen private TV channels and a plethora of private radios.
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Bruised Greek Socialists Face Polls Under New Name
Bruised Greek Socialists Face Polls Under New NameABC NewsPasok dominated Greek politics for decades, but its popularity has been hammered as voters blamed the party for the country's severe financial crisis and grew angry at austerity measures imposed under the country's bailout. Support for the party fell ...and more »
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Greece: Battered Greek Socialist party head to polls under new name
Greece's once-dominant Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement, or Pasok, will participate in May's European Parliament elections as part of a new center-left alliance and not independently, after popular support for the party collapsed during the country's painful economic bailout.
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Die Welt: Greeks Bring the Upside Down
Greek ReporterDie Welt: Greeks Bring the Upside DownGreek ReporterDie Welt_Greece After the creditors' instructions, the Greeks bring the upside down. Wherever you turn in Athens you will find something changing either in everyday life, or in the public sector. The German newspaper Die Welt chose 50 characteristic ...and more »
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One in Three Greek Physicians Found With Unjustified Incomes
One in Three Greek Physicians Found With Unjustified IncomesGreek ReporterAs part of a full-scale operation conducted by the Greek Financial and Economic Crimes Unit (SDOE) targeting money laundering in the health sector, it was revealed that hundreds of physicians all over Greece were involved in tax evasion and ...
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The next act in the ongoing Greek drama
As Greece moves into the six-month presidency of the European Union, a display of virtuoso political and economic theatre is about to unfold on the European stage. The actors are an interlocking set of politicians and finance officials from the ...
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Papaconstantinou to stand trial as judges rule Lagarde list charges have not expired
A council of judges has ruled that the charges levelled against former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou in connection to the alleged tampering of a list containing the names of Greeks with deposits in Switzerland have not expired under the statut... ...
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Independent Greeks hold emergency talks after a third of MPs miss national council
Independent Greek MPs are due to hold emergency talks at the anti-bailout party’s headquarters in Athens on Monday after six of 18 lawmakers failed to attend a meeting of the group’s national council on Saturday
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Winter sales begin in Greece but retail sector expects turnover to drop by 10 pct
Greece’s suffering retail sector will be looking for a boost from winter sales, which begin on Monday and are due to last until February 28.
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Little change in Greek economic sentiment in December, according to IOBE
Economic sentiment in December 2013 was virtually unchanged from the previous month, according to the Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE) think-tank.
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Immigration study reaches some surprising conclusions
Future historians will likely look upon 2011 as the watershed year for the mass exodus of young Greeks abroad. The preliminary results of a study conducted by the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence in cooperation with Trinity College Dublin, ... ...
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Neil Lennon demands answers from Georgios Samaras over Parkhead future
Celtic manager Neil Lennon has demanded striker Georgios Samaras makes his mind up on a new deal so that he can finalise his January transfer plans. The Greece international is out of contract at the end of the season but the Hoops have tabled a new two ...
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Greek deflation eases in December, remains near record
Record unemployment, wage cuts and spare capacity in the economy continued to pull prices down, making the economy more competitive but threatening to hurt Greece's efforts to rein in debt. Consumer prices fell 1.7 percent on an annual basis in ...
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Santorini, Greece: Fine vines among the fiery volcanoes
Surely the best antidote to the unending grey (and rain) of a British January is a vision in bright white, topped with azure and studded with fuchsia: a hot-climate colour combination that comes with the useful side benefit of nurturing great ...
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Atromitos Holds Olympiakos To 0-0
Even the return of its best striker, Costas Mitroglou, couldn’t give front-running Olympiakos a victory against Atromitos, as the Greek soccer league champions had to settle for a 0-0 tie at Peristeri. The draw cut the Reds lead over second-placed PAOK was cut to eight points. The upstart Atromitos team, which regularly gives fits to […]
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Hellenic Postbank Scandal Suspects Face Grilling
ATHENS – Moving swiftly, Greek officials on Jan. 13 were due to speed an investigation into a growing scandal involving the failed state Hellenic Postbank after 25 people were arrested on charges of scheming to get loans they wouldn’t repay, costing the institution more than 500 million euros, some $683.14 million. The bank’s former chairman, […]
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Germany Hints More Aid For Greece
ATHENS – With uncertainty remaining over when Greece’s international lenders will return to discuss unresolved reforms and a 1.4 billion – and growing – hole in the 2014 budget, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said his country, the biggest contributor to $325 billion in two bailouts, would be willing to put up more loans, from […]
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Papaconstantinou Prosecution Gets Go-Ahead
Greece’s former finance minister George Papaconstantinou won’t be able to avoid prosecution on charges he mishandled a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts – an investigation found the names of three of his cousins had been erased. A five-member Judicial Council ruled the case, in which he was indicted […]
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Thessaloniki Set to be European Youth Capital for 2014
Thessaloniki celebrated the arrival of 2014 with a wild party in which the city welcomed the title of “European Capital of Youth.” The upcoming months will be full of events, world championships, international exhibitions and competitions. It is also rumored that the U.N. General Secretary will attend the opening of the “Park of Nations.” On December. […]
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Canada Hopes To Strike Gold In Grief Stricken Greece
OURANOUPOLI, Greece (Reuters) - A Canadian quest to mine for gold in the lush forests of northern Greece is testing the government's resolve to prove Europe's most ravaged economy is open again for business. The Skouries mine on Halkidiki ...
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Greece: neo-nazi; three more Golden Dawn MP behind bars
(ANSAmed) – ATHENS, JANUARY 13 - Another Golden Dawn MP was placed behind bars on Sunday, meaning a third of the Greek far-right party's 18 lawmakers are currently being held in pre-trial detention. Continuing a crackdown against Golden Dawn, as daily ...
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Greek Consumer Prices Decline For Tenth Month
Greek ReporterGreek Consumer Prices Decline For Tenth MonthGreek ReporterGreek Consumer Prices Decline For Tenth Month. By A. Papapostolou on January 13, 2014 in Economy, News · Greek consumer prices fall Greece's EU harmonized consumer prices decreased for the tenth consecutive month in December, data released by ...and more »
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A house in Greece
That was ten years ago, and since then we have been travelling to our old house on the island of Lemnos in the Aegean for six months every year. But it has not ... music of cockerels calling early each morning, the chatter of young children walking home ...
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Greek December consumer prices fall 1.7 pct, deflation eases
Greek consumer prices fell 1.7 percent in December, with the annual pace of deflation easing from the previous month when it set a record, data by the country's statistics service showed on Monday. Deflation ...
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Greece plans to test bond market as awaits Troika
Greece plans to tread lightly with its first bond issue in four years even as the government awaits the return of its international creditors' representatives to Athens "in the coming days".
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Gold mine stirs hope and anger in shattered Greece
OURANOUPOLI, Greece, Jan 13 (Reuters) - A Canadian quest to mine for gold in the lush forests of northern Greece is testing the government's resolve to prove Europe's most ravaged economy is open again for business. The Skouries mine on Halkidiki peninsula - a landscape of pristine beaches and rolling hills dotted with olive groves - is among the biggest investments in Greece since it sank into ...
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Greece stresses its role as EU's energy hub
Greece stresses its role as EU's energy hubEurActivGreece, holding the rotating presidency of the EU until June, said it would promote the enhancement of energy security for the 28-country bloc and fully support the European Commission's approach to Russian energy giant Gazprom. Speaking to the press ...Energy map of Europe about to be redrawnThe Australianall 5 news articles »
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Three more Greek neo-Nazis sent to jail
Three more legislators from Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party were jailed to await trial on charges of running a criminal organisation
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Europe's left has seen how capitalism can bite back
Social democrats wrongly thought the reforms they won were won for good. In Greece, the lesson has been learned by Syriza
For most of the 20th century, the word "reform" was commonly associated with securing state protections against the chaotic effects of capitalist market competition. Today, it is most commonly used to refer to the undoing of those protections.
This is not merely a matter of the appropriation of the term by those in the EU and international lending agencies who are using it as code for demands that Greece, for instance, make further cuts in public sector jobs and services. It is also the way the word has become increasingly used by the parties of the centre left. Thus, the newly elected leader of Italy's Democratic party (the successor to what was western Europe's largest communist party), Matteo Renzi, has called for the government to be even more determined in implementing its economic reform package. The package involves reducing public expenditure and changing regulations to make labour markets more flexible and attract foreign investment.
In pointing out how many European countries are now "furiously dismantling workplace protections in a bid to reduce the cost of labour", a recent New York Times article actually located the roots of this in the "efforts to improve competitiveness" by the social democratic government in Germany in the early noughties. This was done in a way that "further eroded worker protections, fuelling a boom in low-paid, short-term 'mini-jobs' that today account for more than a fifth of German employment".
There is an old debate on the left about reform v revolution. But it has become outmoded, not only because of the extremely limited prospects and forces for revolutionary change. The current meaning of the word "reform" contrasts sharply with the way it was used by Europe's social democrats around a century ago. Whether or not the incremental reforms that went under the rubric of gradualism would achieve social transformation without subjecting society to the pain of revolution, they were designed to promote social solidarity against the market.
Perhaps the greatest illusion of 20th-century social democrats was their belief that once reforms were won they would be won for good. In fact, we can now see how far the old reforms were subject to erosion by expanding capitalist competition on a global scale. They have been so undermined by the logic of competitiveness that it now seems very difficult to see how state protections against markets could be secured in our time without additional measures that would be seen as revolutionary.
The idea that doing anything to undermine private investment is unacceptable has become incredibly powerful. It is precisely this that makes social democratic politicians so timid in our time. And there can be little doubt that to sustain reforms in the old progressive meaning of the word, today a government would need to implement extensive controls to prevent an outflow of capital, and probably have to socialise financial institutions in order to get the necessary room for manoeuvre.
Syriza in Greece is the one left party that has achieved great electoral success in the European crisis by rejecting the way reform has come to be redefined. A central plank in its political programme, moreover, involves bringing "the banking system under public ownership and control, through the radical conversion of its functioning … ". Indeed, what makes European elites most uncomfortable with Greece taking its allotted turn in occupying the EU presidency for the next six months is that a new political crisis leading to a general election might, with Syriza currently leading in the polls, make its leader, Alexis Tsipras, the prime minister of Greece.
What was especially impressive about the political programme of "radical reform" that Syriza passed at its congress last July was that it concluded with these words: "The state we are in today calls for something more than a complete programme formed democratically and collectively. It calls for the creation and expression of the widest possible, militant and catalytic political movement … Only such a movement can lead a government of the left, and only such movement can safeguard the course of such a government."
Yet the party's leaders cannot but be aware that unless a shift in the balance of forces in other countries occurs to allow a Syriza government the space to implement progressive reforms, the people of Greece would suffer even further by being economically penalised and isolated. This is no doubt why, when Tsipras was nominated last month by the small contingent of "far left" parties in the European parliament to replace José Manuel Barroso next May as president of the European commission, he spoke in terms of the "historic opportunity" that now exists for a left alternative to the current capitalist "European model".
This brings us back to the other side of the reform v revolution debate of a century ago, reminding us of what happened when the hope that a revolution on the periphery of Europe would trigger revolutions in the stronger capitalist countries was not realised.
The left used to beat itself up, sometimes quite literally, with debates over reform v revolution, parliamentarianism v extra-parliamentarianism, party v movement – as if one ruled out the other. The question for the 21st century is not reform v revolution, but rather what kinds of reforms, with what kinds of popular movements behind them engaging in the kinds of mobilisations that can inspire similar developments elsewhere, can prove revolutionary enough to withstand the pressures of capitalism.
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2014: Building a strong Greece and resetting Europe
Belgium - Brussels - Looking back at the last few years of back-breaking austerity measures, force-fed failed economic remedies resulting in social turmoil and mass disillusionment, I cannot help but wonder how we got here. I started my first term as a ...
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Greek tragedy befalls satirical site
Normally this would be the official ... the site and killing it — adding accusations of a lack of respect for private property and freedom of expression to their economic woes. Trying to pour cold water on charges Despite the ongoing fury among Irish ...
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The Egyptian Stock Market Is Breathtaking
Think the US market has been on a nice run? Try Egypt.
Here's a 1-year chart of the CASE-30 index, via Bloomberg. The index is up a breathtaking 55% just since last summer.
Coincidentally or not (probably not, actually), the bottom almost perfectly coincides with the Egyptian army toppling Morsi last summer, proving once again that moments of extreme chaos can make for tremendous buying opportunities.
It's a good time to be checking in on the Egyptian market, since we're basically exactly three years since Mubarak toppled, and the Egyptian market crashed. Lo and behold, with the recent rally, stocks are finally within range of where they were when Mubarak was in power.
Meanwhile, if you're looking for a fun comparison, here's a look at the Egyptian market vs. the Greek market (another country that's been through a lot the last few years).
Despite very different circumstances and forces, the trajectories are kind of uncanny. For what it's worth, we've been writing about the similarities between Greek and Egyptian financial markets since early 2012 and it's pleasing to see that the connection has hung together.
What does it mean? Well it could just be totally spurious. But it could also mean that attempts to ascribe market movements to a story on the ground risks losing the big picture. There's a whole world of capital flows, with investment money moving in and out of borders and national markets all the time. As both countries have been in deep turmoil, it's not surprising that attitudes towards both markets have ebbed and flowed at the same time, as the global appetite for risk undulates.
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Greek Golden Dawn leader remanded in jail
An Athens court has remanded the leader of Greece's Golden Dawn neo-Nazi party Nikolaos Michaloliakos and another party parliamentarian in pre-trial custody. They deny charges of running a criminal organization. A Greek government crackdown following the ...
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Rehab World
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Niall Ferguson
UK - Cambridge - Perhaps we should call 2013 the year of Winehouse economics. As the late English chanteuse Amy Winehouse sang: “They tried to make me go to rehab, but I said ‘No, no, no.’” In 2013, the singers were the world’s most important central banks, led by the Federal Reserve.
In the summer, both the Fed and the People’s Bank of China signaled their intention to normalize monetary policy. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke talked openly of “tapering” the Fed’s policy of open-ended bond purchases, also known as quantitative easing (QE). PBOC Governor Zhou Xiaochuan actually did try to rein in his country’s runaway credit growth. But when markets in both countries reacted more violently than expected – with bond yields soaring in the United States and inter-bank lending rates spiking in China – the monetary authorities backed off.
It is a problem many a pop singer has encountered: After years of stimulus, rehab is just not that easy.
True, there remain strong intellectual justifications for continued economic stimulus of one sort or another. In November, the man who once seemed poised to succeed Bernanke, Larry Summers, suggested that the US economy might be in the grip of “secular stagnation.” Other economists continue to fret that in Europe, if not in America, the benign disinflation of recent decades could yet turn into malign deflation.
And yet there are indications that the world economy as a whole is perking up. The International Monetary Fund forecasts that annual global growth will accelerate from 2.9% this year to 3.6% in 2014, and will be 4% or higher for the next four years – above the average growth rates recorded in the 1980’s, 1990’s, and 2000’s.
The mismatch between advanced-economy under-performance and resurgent growth in the rest of the world raises (at least) seven questions, especially for the major central banks themselves. Each of these institutions has some kind of national mandate. Yet, in our interconnected world, their decisions inevitably have global consequences.
Question 1: What exactly will the Fed do under its new boss, Janet Yellen? She certainly sounds as if she favors ongoing medication over cold turkey. The tapering of QE has to happen sooner or later, but Yellen’s genuine concern about the state of the US labor market suggests that she will promise lower interest rates for longer than might seem warranted by other indicators. The challenge will be to make this new regime of “forward guidance” work if other indicators suggest that recovery is underway (just ask Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England).
The US is on the mend in more ways than one. Shale gas and oil have brought an energy bonanza. Silicon Valley is thriving. The stock market is hitting record highs. And, amazingly, a deeply polarized US Congress has just struck a two-year fiscal deal that will boost spending slightly in the short run, while reducing the deficit in the long run.
There is a strong possibility that markets will react to this and other good news by ignoring forward guidance, focusing on the tapering of QE and nudging up long-term rates. And one short-run consequence of this might be the kind of sharp stock-market correction that we saw in 1980 and 1987. Wall Street likes to test a new Fed chairman.
Question 2: How will other central banks react to a changing monetary policy regime in Washington? In Frankfurt, the European Central Bank knows that the eurozone periphery is not ready for higher interest rates yet, even if Spain, Ireland, and Greece are showing signs of economic life. Unemployment on the eurozone periphery remains appallingly high. Moreover, the biggest political risk in Europe is still populism – and next year’s European parliamentary elections will give the likes of France’s far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, a golden opportunity.
Question 3: Will the populists do well enough to disrupt the complex process of establishing a banking union, a prerequisite for the sustainable recovery of Europe’s financial system? Probably not. Indeed, populist success may even encourage Social Democrats and Christian Democrats to form a “grand coalition” in the European Parliament – which would represent another step in the European Union’s quiet Germanization.
Meanwhile, in Japan, there is even less enthusiasm for monetary rehab: the Abe government clearly expects more, not less, stimulus from the Bank of Japan. Without it, hopes that “Abenomics” will get Japan’s annual inflation rate up to 2% will surely be dashed.
Question 4: Will Japan be able to maintain QE while the US tapers? Probably, but the extent to which it serves the cause of sustained growth and higher inflation depends on the so-called “third arrow” of structural reform, which has yet to hit real targets.
The contrast with Japan’s neighbor and strategic rival, China, is striking. There is at least some evidence that the PBOC has already resumed monetary tightening in an effort to impose a controlled credit crunch on the country’s shadow banking sector. That brings me to the final three questions:
Question 5: Can China really sustain growth while simultaneously deflating a credit bubble and implementing the structural reforms announced after the Communist Party Central Committee’s Third Plenum?
Question 6: How will China’s vast new middle class react if the answer to question 5 is “No”?
Question 7: Will the leadership in Beijing respond to domestic discontent with more of the foreign-policy saber rattling that we have seen this year?
I do not pretend to know the answers to these last questions. But they may prove to be the key to how well – or badly – a “Rehab World” turns out.
Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2013.
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Arms Scandal Left Greek Defenseless
Corruption is not a victimless crime, and it’s costly. When politicians or civil servants steal from the state, the cost is passed on to taxpayers one way or another, who wind up footing the bill for the thieves luxurious lifestyle. Witness the growing scandal in the Greek Defense Ministry, which should be renamed the ATM […]
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Breaking Down Greece’s Walls of Pity
The following words are not the complaints of a Diaspora Hellene who is clueless about the realities in Greece. They are intended as a mild wake-up call because five years after the onset of the great crisis, not a minute has been devoted to a review and repositioning of relations between the Diaspora and the […]
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Skiing…in Greece!
It is not widely known, but it is a fact that skiing holidays in Greece are much less expensive than in other areas of Europe. Perhaps the more famous European ski resorts attract more celebrities, but the mountains of Greece offer stunning, idyllic scenery, their own particular charm, and proximity to other attractions, historical sites, […]
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Who We Want To Fight In Mideast
The appalling bloodshed in the Middle East has led many generally well-meaning Americans to demand that we “do something” about it. Many, and not just Republicans and neoconservatives, have condemned President Barack Obama for his inaction while thousands die and our allies come under threat. The press, ranging from the “liberal” Washington Post to the […]
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AGORA: Gay Talk Beyond Duck Dynasty
From time to time an issue emerges and inspires various minds to converge, often at odds with one another, to discuss it. Hopefully, collective enlightenment will result from such conversations. The Ancient Greeks did that in the Agora, the original marketplace of ideas, and we, their modern-day descendants, aspire to continue that tradition. We respect […]
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Doors of Pella Publishing to Close
After half a century of seminal and important work, Leandro Papathanasiou, the great man of Greek-American publishing, will close the doors of Pella Publishing. Almost singlehandedly, he published The Charioteer, a critically-praised cultural annual, as well as the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, an academic publication focused on Modern Greek studies with a special emphasis […]
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Greece, Turkey clubs chase Ovidy Karuru
Greece, Turkey clubs chase Ovidy KaruruThe Zimbabwe StandardUnsettled Belgium-based Zimbabwe international midfielder Ovidy Karuru could seal a January move to Turkey or Greece, his agent has said. BY MICHAEL MADYIRA. Karuru fell out with his OH Leuven coach Ronny Van Geneugden at the end of last season ...
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Was the Greek banker an 'amateur'?
Greek ReporterWas the Greek banker an 'amateur'?Hurriyet Daily NewsIt was obvious that in the eyes of my crew who was helping me making a live broadcast from the middle of Taksim Square, Angelos Filippidis, the former president of the Greek Postbank (TT) executive committee, was not very clever. If he was trying to ...Greek former banker arrested in Turkey and to be deportedTaipei TimesFamous Greek businessman arrestedFocus NewsEx-boss of loans scandal bank to be deported back to GreeceSouth China Morning PostGreek Reporterall 5 news articles »
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