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Macroeconomic thoughts for the Covid19 era & Risk Management Policies

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It was the beginning of 2020 when I rang the alarm bell in my previous articles (see HERE and HERE ) about an impending global financial crisis, the difficulty of absorbing the crisis by the Greek economy along with its growing non-sustainable public debt. No one could have imagined or predicted what followed. Even world-renowned scientists, economists, think tanks that advise politicians, deal with the analysis of trends and geopolitical forecasts, did not expect or predict the rapid onset of the Covid-19 aggressive pandemic that led to perhaps the worst global economic and health crisis of the century in terms of magnitude and duration. Developed countries and their economies are in recession and as long as the vaccine is delayed, fiscal derailment continues, private and public debt is rising while not adequately discussed in the press. Although the consumption of many retail products has not been affected due to the fact that they are not easily substituted in times of crisis (inel...

New article - Macroeconomic thoughts for the Covid19 era

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You can read my new article '' Macroeconomic thoughts for the Covid19 era '' at apopseis.gr (please use Google translate for non-Greek speakers) Click on the link below. Your comments are welcome: https://apopseis.gr/skepsis-gia-tin-epochi-tou-koronoiou/ -Stathis Kassios

Assorted Business Links - July 2020

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Sharing with you some of the most interesting articles I read the last few months. Enjoy! - SK Starbucks suspends advertising on all social media platforms, becoming the latest company to boycott Facebook - Read the full article HERE Reopening from the Great Lockdown: Uneven and Uncertain Recovery - Read HERE AWS launches Amazon Honeycode, a no-code mobile and web app builder - Read HERE Inequality and informality in transition and emerging countries - Read HERE After the Pandemic, a Global Hunger Crisis - Read HERE Australia Stimulus Lands at Households, Ready to Carry Recovery - Read HERE We Need a Name for the Greatest Economic Crisis in a Century - Read HERE NASA scientists detect evidence of parallel universe where time runs backward - Read HERE Digimentality, FEAR AND FAVOURING OF DIGITAL CURRENCY - Read HERE Governments sharing bank details uncover $11 trillion in offshore assets - Read HERE Breaking Out of the Double Squeeze: The Need for Fiscal and Policy Space during the COVI...

Debussy - Man and Artist

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Suggested book: ''Debussy - Man and Artist'' by Oscar Thompson  Excerpt: ''How fantastic were the colors and patterns of the new music that greeted the dawn of the twentieth century in Europe! It was a music that seemed to the listener at times like a mere drift of sound that stunned the senses, at times like the unearthly flower of a world yet undiscovered. The orchestra might have been a bed of exotic blooms in the garden of dreams. The strange landscape of sound was perceived rather than heard, the listener quivered as to the blows of some great bell sunk in the ocean of ineffable pleasure, where reality and its perception were fused into each other.'' You can buy the book here:  https://www.amazon.com/Debussy-Man-Artist-Oscar-Thompson/dp/B000H1AA2A SK

Europe, Covid-19, World Updates

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Here is my personal comment on the much discussed eurobond for dealing with Covid-19 after effects in EE and Eurozone economies: '' #Germany saying no to a new eurobond requested by other member countries where Covid-19 is ravaging their economies, proves once again to have very weak memory. In 1953, 20 countries in London, agreed to help Germany with deleting 52% of its post war debt and reformed the rest of debt in accepting long term loans and payments only if Germany secured annual budget surpluses. If this agreement had not taken place, they would still struggle to lift up after WWII. EU is on the brink of dissolution.'' - Stathis Kassios An interesting Chinese proverb which sounds like an oxymoron to my ears amidst this global health crisis: <<Να προβλέπεις το κακό πριν συμβεί. Να βάζεις τάξη πριν ξεσπάσει ταραχή>> - Κινεζική παροιμία, από το βιβλίο της  Stephanie Bessiere Another interesting article via FP (Foreign Policy): The ...

Big Data is the Scientific answer to Global Fake News and Misinformation on Covid-19

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Dear readers, I am totally overwhelmed with the quality and quantity of fake news and pseudo-science publications, news, and social media posts, amidst this global health crisis due to Covid-19. I believe that the knowledge generated by Big Data is the proper scientific answer to misinformation and propaganda. Read the graphs in real time, evaluate your sources, think, understand and filter out the noise and nonsense. Here's a list of valid sources to better track all the news and monitor your understanding of this virus: Coronavirus Live Updates :  https://ncov2019.live/?fbclid=IwAR2FVQM7Hr_iGGDod_bQsblgn--xmN-R7ukuvMHcJYrQ1spbB7LhZ-hgjag Coronavirus is our Future :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqw-9yMV0sI&fbclid=IwAR3nWroGRZl1aK7jeuc9U23M0QGGZtWKky8X6bXDTo0klj19AA1DBPczHPs A visual history of pandemics :  https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/a-visual-history-of-pandemics?fbclid=IwAR1gtkCgUOa19iZK0KviMa3rxj0borxb10Nt4wxdzGkYmuq6FRdPxrL2PHw word...

Adults In The Room

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If you have seen this film I welcome your comments. Do you agree with the attitude, tactics, decisions, strict behavior of the Troika, IMF, Brussels, ECB and the Eurogroup towards the Greek government in 2015 and since the outbreak of the Greek economic crisis?  -Stathis Kassios