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86 billion Euros are in the mail, just

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... independence from the Ottomans in 1832. It must accept complete oversight from the hated "institutions" (once known as the troika) who will return to Athens to oversee the work of Greek officials. At the insistence of the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... the 13th for the "adults" in the "emergency summit" room continue to disagree to agree. Yes Virginia, the Greeks and the troika have exhausted the third of the three scheduled talks this week and still... nada, nil, zilch. Still, financial markets remain ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... dived. These, because on optimism that a Greco-troika deal would be hammered -- perhaps not yet but soon -- in time for the troika to give Greece the euros to enable Athens to repay the troika. Markets are happy because Tsipras batted his eyelids - he ...

Game theory theorises no Grexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... week bolstering the argument for no Grexit. It's a piece written by Jon Hartley on Forbes magazine titled, "Greece And The Troika's 'Grexit' Game Theory". You can read it here. Jon argues that, "With respect to Europe's decision on whether or not to ...

Mocking Maastricht

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... 1.0% and the Athens SE General Index down a hefty 2.5%. But no surprises here, we've been here before... waay before 'the troika' became known as 'the institutions' -- the pretend and extend game, the game of chickens, the kicking the can down the road. ...

A little tweet told me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... Zerohedge.com eloquently pointed this out in an article published on 24 Feb: "As it turns out, the reason why not only the Troika received an agreed to version of the Greek reform proposals "before midnight on Monday", but rushed these through with a ...

Breathing space or gasping room?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared, "Yesterday we took a decisive step, leaving austerity, the bailouts and the troika behind." Really Alexis? Not so according to Irish finance minister Michael Noonan, who told you, I and Irene that, "They're ...

Grexit not Greek to Brits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... dropping. Its name was contagion. Because of the fear of as well as actual contagion, Greece back then held Germany and the troika by their collective cojones. However, today appears to be a different day. Grexit now appears more like a real and present ...

Tsipras has a dream

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... dreaming!" -- that's Tsipras not Tony, though on second thought, could apply to both. Tsipras is dreamin' if he thinks the troika would happily hand him a,-5 billion - reportedly what the government needs to meet debt repayments (a,-5 billion due next ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... his secret weapon - the OMTs. Except for the Greeks, that is. They're still begging for bailout. Earlier this week, the troika - EU, ECB, IMF - dropped a cool a,-6.8 billion into Athen's begging bowl. Another tranche amounting to about a,-3.0 billion ...
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