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April 10, 2016 By miguel Otero Iglesias

El Brexit divide las dos almas de la City de Londres

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La City de Londres es un sitio tremendamente interesante. Pocos saben que su Corporación es una de las comunas democráticas más antiguas de la historia. Desde hace siglos la City, esa pequeña aldea donde el poder y el dinero global se entrelazan cada segundo, ha desarrollado dos almas. Una patriótica y la otra cosmopolita. En este artículo publicado en Economía Exterior explico porqué se enfrentan ante la posibilidad de un Brexit.

Filed Under: Articles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Brexit, City, democracia, dinero, Euro, finanzas, Londres, Mercados, poder, Reino Unido, Westminster

April 10, 2016 By miguel Otero Iglesias

Why Sir Mervin is wrong about the break-up of the Euro

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In his new book The End of Alchemy, Lord Mervin King, former governor of the Bank of England (the Old Lady), argues that the Euro will break up because it is formed by countries too divergent to work together. So even if the North would cancel the debt of the south the structural problems and tensions will remain. He summarises his argument in an op-ed published by The Telegraph here.

Once I read his piece, I immediately asked my colleague Erik Jones to write together a response to Mervyn arguing that the Euro is not really the cause of the Eurozone’s problems, and that the solution is not going back to the old national currencies but rather further fiscal integration. One point we make is that the majority of Eurozoners want to stick to the Euro. So what makes Lord King believe he knows better than them…Luckily, the editors of The Telegraph liked our piece and it was published here. We thank them for giving us the chance to get our views to their readership and to Lord King.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Break-up, Crisis, debt, Euro, Eurozone, Mervyn King, The Telegraph

August 3, 2015 By miguel Otero Iglesias

Berlín no cederá hasta que caiga París

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En su más reciente entrevista a Claudi Pérez de El País, el ex-ministro de finanzas de Grecia, Yanis Varoufakis, dice que  la estrategia final de Schäuble es hacer que París acepte la necesidad de ceder más soberanía para construir la unión fiscal y política necesarias para hacer del euro una moneda sostenible en el tiempo. Si Grexit es el sacrificio que hay que hacer para conseguirlo, que así sea. Ya se sabe, el fin justifica los medios…

Esto me hizo recordar que hace tres años escribí en Expansión una columna titulada: Berlín no cederá hasta que caiga París. Parece que la estrategia alemana no ha cambiado mucho desde entonces. Lo que sí que no contemplaba por aquel entonces es que Draghi saliese en Julio de 2012 diciendo que haría todo lo que haga falta para salvar el euro. Eso, el OMT y QE han hecho que Berlín no pueda contar con los mercados para ejercer presión sobre Francia. Quizás es por eso que Schäuble se ha sacado la carta de Grexit de la manga. Está claro que la construcción de una unión política nunca es un camino de rosas…

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Alemania, Berlin, Euro, Eurozone, France, Germany, Grecia, Greece, Paris, Political Union, Schauble, Union Politica, Varoufakis

July 28, 2015 By miguel Otero Iglesias

Schäuble has killed off the Grexit fairytale

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After the 11-12 July Greek-End Schäuble has been harshly criticised for putting the possibility of a temporary Grexit on the negotiating table of the Eurogroup. In this piece, published in the LSE EUROPP Blog, I develop a counter-factual argument. I argue that intentionally or otherwise, with his strategy Schäuble has finally killed off the Grexit fairytale told so many times by Krugman, Stiglitz, Sinn, O’Rourke et al. The piece has had quite a success. On the last account it had been shared more than 1.200 times via twitter or Facebook.

Filed Under: Articles, Blog Posts Tagged With: Euro, Eurozone, Germany, Greece, Grexit, Schauble, Tsipras

July 28, 2015 By miguel Otero Iglesias

The effects of Grexit: My comments to the International Press

Over the past weeks I was interviewed by several international media outlets about Grexit (the real one and the one proposed by Schäuble) and its potential effects for Europe, Germany and Spain. Here are my comments for Radio France Internationale, Bloomberg, El País, MNI Euro Insight, and The Telegraph…

Filed Under: Media presence Tagged With: Euro, Eurozone, Greece, Grexit, Podemos, Russia, Spain

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