Dance with Troikas

Tassos Symeonides (RIEAS Academic Advisor based in Seattle, USA)

Ever since April, and a much publicized re-entry in the capital markets to secure a loan, the Greek PM Mr. Samaras has taken no breaks from advertising his government's supposed "success" in leading Greece "out of her crisis." With the exception of Mr. Samaras's narrow circle of advisers, everyone knows that this claim is bogus. In October, Mr. Samaras took another bold, but utterly inane, step in announcing that Greece was about to ditch the IMF and stand on her own two feet... Read more