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This week: a range of confidence measures, from not great to interesting for Australia; ECB confirms negative rates and further stimulus.
Scrapping €500 notes would inconvenience money launderers; it would also help the European Central Bank to make interest rates more negative.
This is what could cause the collapse of the EU – and what could save it.
Sharemarkets may welcome monetary intervention, but indications of growth are needed.
With economies in Europe and America forging very different recoveries, their central banks are having to navigate by different stars.
An opposition politician and academic argues that new revelations from the Syriza leadership imply that the Prime Minister misled the Greek people.
If Greece exited the Eurozone it would face several years of economic chaos. But it would be the master of its own destiny. The current EU offer will further destroy the Greek economy.
The draconian deal imposed by the Eurogroup is worse than a reparations settlement imposed on a defeated enemy.
Backed into a corner as the banks reached the brink, the Greek prime minister may have fashioned some sort of success, and the prospect of something approaching debt relief a little down the line.
The Greek rejection of the bailout means it’s time to brace ourselves: Grexit is now an 80% probability.
Academic experts respond to the No vote in Greece’s referendum on whether or not to accept a bailout offer from their international creditors.
Would the eurozone redesign its flawed system in the wake of a Grexit?
An analysis conducted in 2007 showed how severe the consequences would be if a country left the euro. How have eurozone officials let it get this far?
With the ECB freezing the level of emergency liquidity assistance it is providing to Greek banks, the nightmare scenario for Greece is already beginning to unfold.
Investment for profit and development should lie at the heart of a solution for the imbalances in Greece and Europe.
A call to break with the leadership of Greece’s ruling party has highlighted the futility of debt-led austerity and the burden it places on people on the wrong side of a banker’s bad bet.
As Greece wastes time seeking war repatriations to help cover its debts, a better solution would be debt forgiveness - with conditions.
Yanis Varoufakis was supposed to have an academic advantage in tangled talks with the Troika. But politics can mess with the most careful plans.
The first ever minutes from the rate setting meeting at the ECB should remind member governments of the Eurozone’s disarray.
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