Posts Tagged ‘Greece’
Budget; Foreclosure Agreement; Occupy the SEC
(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
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.
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
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.
