Europe Debt

EU Financial Tug of War and the Greek Catalyst

Nikolas Katsimpras | Posted 03.27.2012

Nikolas Katsimpras

No matter how inspiring the future European vision might be, the strategy towards it, unfortunately, bears neither fiscal nor social morality over the people. The domino effect has started from Greece.

Rod Kurtz

How Is The European Debt Crisis Affecting Your Business?

HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 01.10.2012

Main Street can feel pretty far away from, say, the piazzas of Rome and the platias of Athens. But the recent political and economic turmoil in Italy,...

Greek Debt Crisis Worsens: Prime Minister George Papandreou Admits Another €110 Billion Needed To Prevent Default

Sheldon Filger | Posted 08.21.2011

Sheldon Filger

I was not alone in being skeptical as the first European/IMF bailout package was cobbled together last year when the Greek sovereign debt crisis first...

European Debt Fears Grow

AP | CIARAN GILES | Posted 05.25.2011

MADRID — Europe's debt crisis cast its gloom over larger countries like Spain on Tuesday as investors sold off government bonds on worries that ...

The Debt Problems Of The European Periphery

baselinescenario.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Last week's renewed anxiety over bond market collapse in Europe's periphery should come as no surprise.  Greece's EU/IMF program heaps more public de...

European Debt Crisis: EU Plans Closer Spending Scutiny

AP | AOIFE WHITE | Posted 05.25.2011

BRUSSELS — European Union officials urged a crackdown on widespread government overspending, calling Wednesday for much closer economic coordina...

In Europe Crisis Credit-Rating Agency Warnings Still Carry Influence

AP | STEVENSON JACOBS and DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — The downgrading of European debt is turning up the heat on the firms that issue the ratings. Some European officials are calling for...

Merkel: PUNISH Countries Running Excessive Deficits

AP | GEIR MOULSON | Posted 05.25.2011

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for tougher regulation aimed at stock and bond traders along with a crackdown on government debt...

Plato's Bankrupt Republic

Neil K. Shenai | Posted 05.25.2011

Neil K. Shenai

The EU is doing what it does best, deliberating about a future course of action. They would be wise to heed some earlier lessons from the American financial crisis that became apparent with hindsight.

Greece Debt Crisis, Euro Woes Could Infect U.S. Recovery

AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — The United States, which led the world into recession, may now see its fragile recovery stifled by events across the globe. Danger...