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evaporating at a very high rate. The usually excellent Sober Look blog dissects the paradox of the BOG's growing balance sheet on the o...

That's right, a very public suicide. Mohamed Bouazizi burned himself in December 2010; less than a month later, President Zine El Abidi...

I was on German radio yesterday morning, commenting on unrest in Greece. You can read (if your German is up to it) most of what I had to sa...

(image via libcom.org) Last year, Jacopo Ponticelli and I wrote a paper looking at the link between austerity measures and unrest. We found...

In all the bruhaha about Greece's approaching credit event, people have taken their eyes of Portugal. The country is going down the Gree...

The latest Euro summit was meant to build a firewall around Greece, and to isolate it from the other weaker members of the Eurozone. One wee...

CNN has an op-ed by yours sincerely on the Greek crisis, and analogies with the case of Argentina in 2001. As they say - history doesn't...

In his How to Write A Sentence , Stanley Fish rightly spends a few pages lauding and analyzing Antonin Scalia's beautiful sentence: Inte...

Brad DeLong has a beautifully simple back-of-an-envelope calculatio n on what the deficit implications of austerity are. His figures are for...

The Economist has come round to my conclusion of last spring, namely that the Greek sovereign debt case is a no-hoper... I hate to say ...

I was just in Rome for a talk at Ente Einaudi (and some plain old tourism, enjoying Richard Meier's Ara Pacis Museum ) when German TV as...

My bank in Spain has recently been unusually friendly and generous. Normally, they are happy to pay me 0% interest for the balances I keep. ...

Simon Johnson and Peter Boone have some interesting things to say, thinking through the implications of the recent aid package to Greece ( B...

for the wrong reasons. Over at the Daily Telegraph , Ambrose Evans-Pritchard had lunch with Carmen Reinhart, who (together with Ken Rogoff) ...

So there is a solution to what some people have called a "Greek Tragedy" after all. In true Euro-fashion, it's a bit of a fudg...

When is Greece going to go bust? It may sound a little harsh, but without help from the outside, I see very little hope for the indebted Eu...