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Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... the tsunami/nuclear meltdown in Japan. This time the Eurozone crisis threatens to re-start again for who knows what PM Tsipras' resignation and the subsequent snap elections in Greece brings to the just-approved bail out of Athens. But this isn't Europe's ...

86 billion Euros are in the mail, just

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
It's a deal! Well, er, not quite. He huffed and he puffed and he beat his chest. In the end, Greek PM Tsipras got his cake... on his face! Tsipras urged the Greeks to do what he say -- vote "Oxi" to the reforms for bail out conditions proposed by its ...

Grexit nears, markets cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... word with newswire services reporting that the duelling parties have upped the ante and hardening their stances. Greek PM Tsipras accused Greece's creditors of wanting to humiliate the government - the IMF for its "criminal intent" and the ECB for insisting ...

Another thrilla in Athena

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... does a Michael Jackson: "It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark..." Karen argues that Greek PM Tsipras hopes that a deal would be reach on 25 June - the day European leaders hold their scheduled meeting. Too late pens Karen ...

Mocking Maastricht

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... 3.0% limit from 2003-2006. The powers that be (that includes Germany) let it get away with it. Why not Greece? Greek PM Tsipras' op-ed article in 'Le Monde' rings a bell: Which strategy will prevail? The one that calls for a Europe of solidarity, equality ...

Strong USD reflects (deflects) lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... elections scheduled for later this year, the prospect of which maybe in the back of 'the institutions" minds. Letting Greek PM Tsipras get away with his demands would emboldened the Spaniards to vote for non-austerite later this year... and then they'll ...

A little tweet told me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... the reported deal between Greece and "the institutions" reported over the weekend was still inconclusive. Turns out PM Tsipras was right, he won. And I was so spectacularly Benjamin "wrOng". Not because, as you, me and Dupre now know, the deal is done ...

Grexit not Greek to Brits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... tomorrow. Greece better hope that what that something inside my frontal lobes is whispering happens because if not then PM Tsipras would have to eat his words in front of his citizens. For without the inklings of contagion, Greece is a non-matter - it ...
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