Global Economic Outlook: Greece At The Precipice
An emergency Euro Summit, today attempts an 11th hour deal to prevent Greece from defaulting on its debts. Shanghai Composite Index makes a record drop, and world markets try to deal with it all in the face of a looming liquidity crisis. In the Calendar This Week. China's Shanghai Composite Index Plummets. China has a bank holiday today. The traditional Dragon Boat Festival commemorates the life and work of famous Chinese scholar, Qu Yuan. Last week saw a record decline in the Shanghai Composite Index although the chart implies China's attempt at blowing an epic stock market bubble is far....
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The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has warned that the global economic outlook “has darkened significantly,” emphasizing that, regarding a global recession, “we cannot rule it out.”
IMF Says Global Economic Outlook ‘Has Darkened Significantly’
Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), discussed the global economic outlook and the prospect of a global recession in an interview with Reuters Wednesday.
Commenting on the global economy, the IMF....
This morning's Global Economic Outlook report focused on the emergency Euro Summit that was to hammer out a deal to avert Greece defaulting on her debts. Crisis has been averted and additional time for drafting a deal was brokered between Greece and her creditors, reports Reuters. Eurozone finance ministers accepted a cash-for-reform deal from Greece today but insist on a detailed study, that will take days, to determine whether or not the reforms can lead to an agreement and avert default. Pay Up, Get Down. The ministers will reconvene later this week, to give Greece time to negotiate....
Anyone with a brain can see the principle of the European Union is not necessarily beneficial to most member states. It is evident the financial sector is still going through a lot of issues as we speak. The next economic crisis may come upon us a lot sooner than most people anticipate. In fact, it appears things will take another turn for the worse where Greece is concerned. Moreover, the country violated the terms of the EU bailout with some of their recent developments. Introducing economic changes in a country suffering a significant crisis is never easy. For Greece, that situation has....
Greece has never been accused of being an economic savant over the last generation. Using the Drachma for the 3rd time from 1951 to 2001, it's value declined to the point where Greece joined the E. U.'s new multi-national Euro system in 2002. Greece followed up with three distinct recessions in each year from 2007 through 2009. This required a massive bail-out in 2010, and "austerity measures" ever since for the citizens to live up to, while the bankers who caused the issues continue to mismanage the economy unabated, asking for more loans as we speak. These consistent economic issues have....
The results of Sunday's elections in Greece brought the left wing party Syriza a breath away from an absolute majority. The party was 2 seats away from getting the 151 required in order to form a government of its own. The government was formed in cooperation with the party Independent Greeks that won 13 seats in the parliament. Besides all that, what does a left wing government really mean for bitcoin in Greece? What things are like in Greece. It's quite well known that Greece is in an economic crisis. Not many things have changed from the time Greece became insolvent back in 2010. The....