Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis Matthew Lynn
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
What is scary is that it treats reducing government debt as a first order objective, when cutting debt levels when growth is less than robust kills economies, as multiple test cases in Europe demonstrate vividly. I do not happen to agree with it as it is rather simplistic in its reasoning (the UK had a banking bust without being anywhere near the euro!) but it does This is unlike the situation in Greece, Spain, Italy etc., where the sovereign did actually get the money. Keynesian in the article above should be in quotes. The Root of All Sovereign-Debt Crises. But it would be a grave mistake to assume that the sovereign debt crisis that is unfolding will remain confined to the weaker eurozone economies. After that, I'll discuss the implications of the European sovereign debt crisis for the future design of EMU. There is not even a mechanism for Greece to leave the eurozone. Budgetary reins during the economic booms, and tightening them during the busts. NEW YORK – The Greek debt crisis has prompted questions about whether the euro can survive without a nearly unimaginable centralization of fiscal policy. I will argue that at the root of the crisis we find some individual euro area countries pursuing wrong policies, as well as a failing system Prior to the crisis, mainly Ireland, and to a lesser extent also Greece and Spain, showed signs of real convergence.