Wednesday, January 31, 2018

The Greek Position on the naming issue of FYROM (and a critique from the other side).

The matter at hand is a controversial one. There are two sides. Most Greeks pick their side. 
Apart from the ownership of the name. 
Is there a real danger for Greece coming from this tiny country? Can a tiny country undermine and win territory from a stronger country?

Well, history says it can. That's how Greece freed most of what is our country today. Arguments of the type "how can you claim that this little country threat your territories?" just ignore the fact that Greece gained territory from the Ottoman Empire, when under any measure, Greece was tiny and the Ottoman Empire was great. 
So the answer to the matter at hand is that the size is one thing, the existence of a threat is quite another.
Are they threatening Greece? Well they say so... 

Does Greece have the right to defend its territory? Yes, Greece has this right, and the means are also a legitimate choice.

I think that the material below will enlighten both sides of the story.

Friday, January 26, 2018

Investors Welcome Greece Back Out of the Naughty Corner: Gadfly


The Washington Post

By Mark Gilbert | Bloomberg January 25
As the global elite gathers in Davos for the World Economic Forum, the European Union has been applauded for its political and economic progress in the past year. And nowhere is the bloc’s newfound cohesion more evident than in Greece.

The country has been the main beneficiary of European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s 2012 pledge to do “whatever it takes” to save the common-currency project -- even if the nation’s debt doesn’t qualify for the central bank’s bond-buying program.

Thursday, January 11, 2018

Hedge Fund Sees Juice in Greek Rally as Yields Hit 2006 Low


By Todd White  and Sid Verma
9 Ιανουαρίου 2018, 3:59 μ.μ. EET Updated on 9 Ιανουαρίου 2018, 6:43 μ.μ. EET
Convergence trade remains favorite of Algebris Investments
Borrowing costs drop as traders eye recovery, end of bailout

One of Western Europe’s most dramatic bond-convergence trades this decade -- Greece over Germany -- looks like it will reward investors yet again in 2018.

London hedge fund Algebris Investments is among those betting economic momentum will take the country’s borrowing costs even closer to Germany’s after the Mediterranean country’s 10-year yield spread narrowed by about 44 basis points this month alone. Algebris says it may shrink by as much as 75 basis points.

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Καλλιεργούν το μίσος ως αρετή

Μυρτώ Λιαλιούτη  | ΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΣΗ: 17/05/2017 23:24 |
Συνέντευξη της Σώτης Τριανταφύλλου στα ΝΕΑ

Η αιτία μηνύσεων όπως αυτή που ασκήθηκε εναντίον μου είναι η εκκαθάριση της κοινωνίας από τον ενοχλητικό δημόσιο λόγο σύμφωνα με κάποια αυταρχικά κριτήρια που παρουσιάζονται ως ανθρωπιστικά. Από τότε που ο μαρξισμός καθαγίασε το κοινωνικό μίσος, οι διάφοροι σωτήρες και προστάτες των αδυνάτων το καλλιεργούν ως κοινωνική αρετή. Οσο για τη δική μου δίωξη πρόκειται για αποτέλεσμα τακτικής λιντσαρίσματος η οποία σήμερα έχει αντικείμενο εμένα, αύριο θα έχει κάποιον άλλον. Οποιος ενοχλεί την αριστερά και τους καλοθελητές των δήθεν ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων πρέπει να σωπάσει. Ας πάρουμε σειρά ένας-ένας...