Posts Tagged ‘Greece’

Greece/Eurozone panel; Dying for Growth; Links

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Mar 30, 2012 | Tags: Charlie and the M.T.A., Dissent, Gerald Epstein, Gerald Freidman, Greece, growth, growth consensus, health care mandate, Jeffrey Frankel, Jim Yong Kim, Jonathan Latham, Jonathan Rowe, Larry Summers, Louis Uchitelle, Mark Engler, Mark Weisbrot, MBTA, Obamacare, Occupy Boston, Occupy the MBTA, Occupy the T, Occupy Wall Street. The Gothamist, Paul Krugman, Richard Parker, Romneycare, single-payer, Supreme Court, World Bank | 1 Comment

(1) Panel discussion with Mark Weisbrot, Jeffrey Frankel, and Richard Parker: I went to the panel discussion that D&S co-sponsored at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (I had lobbied for it to be held somewhere more welcoming to non-academics) on Greece and the eurozone crisis. The discussion was interesting, but I found it ...Read more.

Left Forum, Mark Weisbrot, etc.

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Mar 22, 2012 | Tags: Alex Gourevitch, Andrew Schiff, billionaires, Corey Robin, Cracked magazine, David Graeber, Doug Henwood, eurozone crisis, freedom, Greece, interest-rate swaps, Jeffrey Frankel, Ken Griffin, Left Forum, liberty, Mark Weisbrot, Nouriel Roubini, NYPD, Occupy Boston, Occupy the MBTA, Occupy the T, Occupy Wall Street, Progressive Planning, Union Square, Yves Smith, Zuccotti Park | No Comments

(1) Left Forum: Left Forum 2012 was a big success and a lot of fun. Most of my time was spent at the D&Stable at the book exhibit, which involved, as usual, lots of great conversations with forum attendees (and we recruited lots of new subscribers). But I also spoke on a panel organized by ...Read more.

Goldman and Greece, etc.

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Mar 7, 2012 | Tags: BP, bullying, contraception, David Graeber, debt, Deepwater Horizon, environmental movement, Goldman Sachs, Greece, interest-rate swaps, Jonathan Latham, misogyny, Phineas Baxandall, Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, school shootings, sexism | 2 Comments

(1) Goldman Sachs and Greece: A piece in Bloomberg about how Goldman made a “secret loan” to Greece in 2001 involving currency swaps and interest-rate swaps. This ended up costing Greece billions of euros. Interest-rate swaps have caused trouble for lots of municipalities (as the SEIU report I linked to the other day documents). We’ll ...Read more.

Budget; Foreclosure Agreement; Occupy the SEC

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Feb 15, 2012 | Tags: 000 Years and Life, 3, Dodd-Frank, EconoMonitor, Greece, Jeffrey Sachs, Left on Pearl, Marshall Auerback, Mike Prokosch, Naked Capitalism, Obama 2012 budget, Occupy Film, Occupy the SEC, Occupy Wall Street, Randall Wray, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Walpole, Yves Smith | 1 Comment

(1) Obama’s Budget: Two items worth checking out: veteran Boston-area organizer Mike Prokosch had a great piece on Common Dreams called Starve the Beast–The Pentagon. A nice re-purposing of the tired Reagan-era slogan. The other is a nicely critical piece on the budget in the Financial Times by Jeffrey Sachs, An American budget for the ...Read more.

Troika to PIIGS: Shut Up and Take Your Medicine

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post, Uncategorized | Nov 13, 2011 | Tags: European Central Bank, European Union, Greece, IMF, Loukas Papademos, Mario Monti, Mike-Frank Epitropoulos, Silvio Berlusconi | No Comments

Troika to PIIGS: Shut Up and Take Your Medicine Economists to Shepherd Greece and Italy Mike Epitropoulos | November 11, 2011 The mainstream press around the world is jubilantly covering the change in leadership in both Greece and Italy, as the people in those countries and the other “PIIGS” continue to have harsh austerity measures ...Read more.

Labor Victory, Greece, Clowns, etc.

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Nov 9, 2011 | Tags: clowns, collective bargaining, college sports, Dave Zirin, Dean Baker, Ec 10, Greece, Greg Mankiw, Harvard, Joe Paterno, John Kasich, labor movement, Ohio, Penn State, The Yes Men, Wall Street Bull | No Comments

A quick bunch of links–I have been having trouble finding time to do a proper blog post, for which I apologize. (1) Labor Victory in Ohio: NYT report; interesting piece in the New Republic (which I usually don’t have much use for). (2) Dean Baker on Greece: In the Guardian, for TM to show to ...Read more.

Weisbrot and Epitropoulos on Greece

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Jul 22, 2011 | Tags: austerity, bond market, debt, deficits, euro, Europe, Greece, Mark Weisbrot, Mike-Frank Epitropoulos, protest | 1 Comment

A Call from Mike-Frank Epitropoulos: Mike Epitropoulos, author of Greece as a Demonstration Project (Dollars & Sense, May/June 2010) called me from Athens a couple of days ago. He’ll be writing another article for us soon about the situation over there. In the meantime, check out this piece he wrote for his Znet page, The ...Read more.