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Posts by Yiannis Mouzakis
The Greek debt circle can be squared
From the beginning of the crisis, Greece’s debt has often been the elephant in the room. Over the last year it has taken on the form of an unsolvable equation as key decisions makers have taken positions that do not appear to overlap.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Economy (344)
How Greece's political system failed to safeguard the largest investment in the country's history
On Friday September 23, the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) published its interim financial statements for the first quarter of 2016. As usual, the results failed to make many people sit up and take notice.
Contributors: Manos Giakoumis, Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Economy (344), Greece (522)
Greece's harsh social reality
The key figures reflecting the extent of the economic collapse that Greece has experienced since 2009 are pretty well known, even to those who have not been following the story that closely over the past few years.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Economy (344), Society (149), Greece (522)
Greece's 2009 deficit makes for a good conspiracy; shame about the numbers
I believed that the issue of Greece’s 2009 deficit was definitely settled last year when Andreas Georgiou, the former head of ELSTAT, was cleared in court of allegations that he purposefully inflated Greece’s 2009 deficit figures in order to lead the country into the first eurozone and International Monetary Fund-led programme in 2010.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Economy (344), Greece (522)
If you think it's bleak for Greece now, wait until tomorrow
Understandably, when the International Monetary Fund published its Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) last week, its gloomy projections regarding the unsustainability of Greece’s debt drew all the attention.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Economy (344), Greece (522)