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PUBLIC BROADCASTERS VERSUS STATE TELEVISION - HERE'S A REAL DILEMMA FOR A CHANGE
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Having spent much of the last couple of days hearing that state television is what separates us from the animals, I thought I'd expand on the topic a little further than I did in my original post on the ERT reboot . Sadly people busy licking the boot...
WEEKEND READING 15-16 JUNE 2013
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The European Commission publishes proposals for new rules on preparing Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure statistics http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/excessive_imbalance_procedure/Documents/1_EN_ACT_part1_v11.pdfHey I believe i...
THE REAL TRAGEDY OF GREECE'S PUBLIC BROADCASTER
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This is of course old news to Greek readers and most foreign ones too - the Greek Government has shut down ERT, the public broadcaster, in what they claim was a drive to eliminate waste. In the last week of its life, Greek public TV got about 13...
WEEKEND READING - 8-9 JUNE 2013
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Get the full IMF mea culpa boxed set: The ex-post review into the 2010 bailout of Greece, the Article IV consultation report, and Third Staff Review of the programme, as well as a fascinating Selected Issues paper. Oh, and a note on how the...
WEEKEND READING - 1-2 JUNE 2013
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My Twitter account used to serve as a repository of links I thought were brilliant but didn't have time to blog on. With the account gone, I've decided to start a Weekend Reading series for the same purpose. I will aim for ten per weekend, but no pro...
GREECE'S NEW FAR RIGHT - DRIVEN TO EXTREMES OR A FEW HANDOUTS SHORT OF A FASCIST?
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Loyal readers may remember past posts in which I've referred to the European Values Survey of 2008 (see here and here).2008 is an impossibly long time ago in Greece. But to me, this is an important study because, based on a large-ish, repre...
THE TWITTER ACCOUNT IS GONE, THE BLOG LIVES ON
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Dear Friends, I cancelled my Twitter account Tuesday morning. A forgotten auto-feed might re-activate it temporarily, but rest assured it is down for good. I had thought of this many times over the last year, and increasingly in 2013. On Tu...
WE CAN HAZ BABIEZ? WTF?
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It's been a while now since I wrote this article on how Greece's fertility bust, and our unenlightened response to it, helped build our mountain of debt in the 80s and set us on course for the sovereign debt crisis of 2009. I've been thinking a lot a...
STOP FUNDING FASCISM! (BY AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE)
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Maria Margaronis is a Greek journalist. Although we have had no one-to-one real-world dealings, and I cannot subscribe to her views on all matters, we’re FB friends and I appreciate her deeply. You can read a selection of her work for the...
ΤΙ ΣΥΝΕΒΗ ΤΕΛΙΚΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΥΠΡΟ; (Update no. 4)
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Η είδηση των αποφάσεων του Eurogroup στις 16 Μαρτίου με &bet...
NAIVE EXTRAPOLATION REDUX
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Some time ago I wrote a rather controversial post demonstrating how far divorced Greek output per capita was from from the country's competitiveness levels. I wanted to demonstrate, among other things, how far Greece had left to fall - the difference...
SO WHAT DID GREECE SPEND THAT DEFICIT MONEY ON? A NAIVE ANALYSIS
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Some time ago, I wrote a post examining the puzzle of Greek public procurement, in which I argued that there's simply not enough dodgy public procurement in recent Greek history to justify calling all of our debt 'odious' even by a long stretch of th...
A VERY DIFFERENT VIEW OF THE FAILED GREEK STATE
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I love Google Scholar.Like all things hyperlinked, Google Scholar's number one unintended attribute is that it makes serendipity not just possible, but inevitable. You look for X, you find Y along the way.Tonight I found myself looking, for the umpte...
U CAN HAZ LOST DECADE!
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Readers may have guessed by now that most of my method in preparing this blog consists mainly of three things: 1. scanning my regular newsletters from the World Bank, the IMF, the OECD and other eee-vil New World Order organisations for interesting r...
@LOLGREECE ON TOUR
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While I haven't been writing much over the last year, I have been speaking, in both my professional capacity and as an amateur econblogger. Unfortunately, I've rarely been able to link to a recording (with a significant exception here).So here's a li...
TEH BIIG PIKCHUR: 2013 EDITION (PREVIEW)
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[This post is still under construction]Dear friends,It’s been ages since I wrote a proper post; we’re long past apologies so I’ll just explain that both my professional and personal life have become a lot more demanding; staying up till 4 am is...
GREEK FIGURES AND THOUGHTS ON POVERTY
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A couple of weeks ago, Eurostat published its estimates of at-risk-of-poverty individuals in the member states in 2011, to a substantial media reception in Greece and elsewhere. Perhaps less attention has been paid to the figures published a couple o...
ΒΟΥΛΑ ΔΕΝ ΕΙΣΑΙ ΜΟΝΗ... ΕΙΜΑΣΤΕ ΚΙ ΕΜΕΙΣ ΚΑΜΜΕΝΟΙ
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Όπως και όλο το Ελληνικό Twitter πάνω κάτω, μπλέχτηκα κι εγώ τη βδομάδα που μας πέρασε σε αλλεπάλληλα tweets για την υπόθεση της Παπαχρήστου και...
LAISSEZ PASSER: AN OPEN LETTER TO @NO10GOV
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The Right Hon. David Cameron PC MP, Prime Minister of the United KingdomDear Prime MinisterMy name is Emmanuel Schizas. I was born and grew up in Athens, Greece, and moved to London in 2005, at a time when my homeland was growing and gaining in influ...
