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Background Briefing with Ian Masters, July 7, 2015. All Rights Reserved. From Athens, Greece, Levy President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou provides an update on emergency negotiations between the new Greek finance minister and his European counterparts, amid warnings by German Chancellor Angela Merkel that “it is no longer about weeks, but a matter of days” before […]

RT, July 2, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Research Associate Pavlina R. Tcherneva outlines the conditions that would encourage Greece to accept a bailout offer and provides her take on the government’s debt reconstruction deal. Video of the interview is available here (3:35):  http://rt.com/shows/boom-bust/271168-greece-defaults-imf-creditors/  

Bloomberg Radio, June 29, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Papadimitriou provides a picture of what it’s like on the ground in Athens, where the prevailing mood is defined by “negotiation fatigue” and anxiety about the end of the bailout agreement on June 30. Greece is being asked to do the impossible, says Papadimitriou: to impose extra […]

Economia, June 23, 2015. All Rights Reserved. All’interno del quadro economico internazionale, Jan Kregel, direttore del programma “Politica Monetaria” presso il Levy Economic Institute negli USA, analizza qual è stato il ruolo degli Stati Uniti all’interno della crisi economica. Uno degli elementi che viene messo maggiormente in evidenza, è l’ importanza data al settore finanziario, rispetto all’economia reale: ciò ha […]

The American Prospect, June 12, 2015. All Rights Reserved. On our way back from Berlin on Tuesday, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis remarked to me that current usage of the word “reform” has its origins in the middle period of the Soviet Union, notably under Khrushchev, when modernizing academics sought to introduce elements of decentralization […]

Background Briefing, June 11, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Levy President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Ian Masters discuss the Institute’s latest Strategic Analysis of the US economy, and how destructive political ideology is crippling recovery and undermining an otherwise healthy economy. Full audio of the interview is available here.

The Conversation, June 10, 2015. All Rights Reserved. It was never going to be easy. That much was known from the outset. Greece’s newly elected government and the country’s creditors started from too far apart to quickly settle on anything that would be easily sellable to their respective constituencies…. Read more: https://theconversation.com/time-to-end-europes-disgrace-of-holding-greek-people-hostage-42939