by Sam Wilkin | Jul 7, 2015 | Blog
Between 2007 and 2012 several Eurozone countries — Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain — needed bailouts. In each case, the recipient countries threatened that they would leave the Eurozone if the bailout terms were too harsh. Germany and the other AAA-rated...
by Sam Wilkin | Feb 11, 2014 | Blog
Most economists have been too pessimistic about the Eurozone crisis. The famous names who forecast a Eurozone breakup – Martin Wolf, Niall Ferguson – were generally guilty of confusing “broken” with “cannot be fixed”. There were good reasons for this confusion....
by Sam Wilkin | Jan 19, 2014 | Video
The Eurozone enjoyed a year of relative political peace, prior to the Q1 2015 Greek debt negotiations. Sam Wilkin explains why.