Paul Mason
As Greece gives its marching orders to the Troika – five reactions
Greece’s new Syriza-run government re-writes the timetable for dealing with its huge debts, saying to Europe’s money men: “go ahead punk – make my day”.
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Paul Mason
Five last-minute thoughts about the Greek election
Greece’s deep-seated problems are decades old and normal. What’s abnormal is the chance to blow it all away.
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Paul Mason
Eurozone QE: 20 things you need to know
The European Central Bank enters the last chance saloon as it prepares to pump over one trillion euros into the Eurozone’s fragile economy – can it possibly work?
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ECB unleashes 1,100,000,000,000 euro financial ‘bazooka’
The European Central Bank will pump 1.1tn euros (£840bn) into financial markets until September 2016 in a last-ditch attempt to prevent the fragile eurozone economy from grinding to a halt.
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Paul Mason
Inside Syriza’s economic brain
For all its recent moderation, and the clear professional expertise of its economics team, no party like Syriza has ever been in power in a European democracy.
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Paul Mason
Why the markets are frightened
Germany’s economy is spluttering, deflation is growing and the UK’s FTSE is going nowhere – did the post-Lehman crisis ever go away?
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Paul Mason
Is Europe’s economic house of cards about to collapse?
Germany suffers its sharpest drop in industrial production since 2009 – boosting fears that the EU’s economic powerhouse could head for recession and trigger a crisis across Europe.
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Paul Mason
ECB acts to prevent deflation, but is stagnation now a risk?
As the Eurozone project goes on failing, it is dragging the institutions and economies of Europe into a zone of disrepute that will drive anti-EU sentiment here.
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Paul Mason
Can a negative charge zap eurozone economies into life?
After every financial crash there’s a danger of stagnation, deflation and depression. Europe had to look that danger squarely in the face, and act.
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Faisal Islam
Mark Carney’s exercises in persuasion
The new Governor was in his element at the early unveiling of the concept for the Jane Austen £10 note. I quoted back the Austenism to be used on the note at Governor Carney: “I declare after all there’s no enjoyment like reading!”, asking if it applied to the MPC minutes, “for a very sad group of people that is true,” he told me.
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Faisal Islam
Cyprus: Too Small To Bail
Anger is growing among Cypriots as they queue at cashpoints to withdraw their savings due to the bailout.
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Faisal Islam
Cyprus: ten huge consequences of the bailout of a small country
As Cyprus prises itself from the jaws of bankruptcy, the island’s savers face a big bill to dig the island out of its financial mess, reports Faisal Islam.
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EU, Greece agree debt deal
European finance ministers agree to provide 40bn euros to ease Greek’s debt crisis after three years of false starts.
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Gary Gibbon
Germany has the money and Germany gets its way
There are rumours of a mini-breakthrough in wrangling over the EU bailout fund.
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German court approves eurozone bailout fund
Germany’s leading court rejects calls to block the establishment of a permanent fund to support indebted countries.
