Posts tagged with 'Bailout'

28 Mar 13 17 Comments

How Greece exported a bank default to Cyprus

Cyprus bailout: the inside story of a president “humiliated” by EU bureaucrats half his age, and of a country pushed over the edge in order to protect Greece.

27 Mar 13 3 Comments

Nicosia’s corralito: the kids leading Cyprus’s controlled anger

Chanting “Troika go home” to the White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army, Economics Editor Faisal Islam meets the kids leading the controlled anger in Cyprus at its bailout terms.

20 Mar 13 16 Comments

Cyprus: Leaving Larnaca searching for Eurozone’s FDR

The economic crisis in Cyprus is leading to a number of flights. Economics Editor Faisal Islam sees a parallel with the economic landscape of America in the 1930s.

17 Mar 13 10 Comments

Cyprus: Too Small To Bail

Anger is growing among Cypriots as they queue at cashpoints to withdraw their savings due to the bailout.

16 Mar 13 17 Comments

Cyprus: ten huge consequences of the bailout of a small country

As Cyprus prises itself from the jaws of bankruptcy, the island’s savers face a big bill to dig the island out of its financial mess, reports Faisal Islam.

07 Nov 12 3 Comments

General Motors is alive, as is Obama’s presidency

America faces a “fiscal nightmare” of tax rises and spending cuts, unless Republicans in the House of Representatives are willing to compromise.

06 Sep 12 4 Comments

Draghi’s backdoor bailout of Spain

If Spain accepts the humiliation of some outside oversight, ECB President Mario Draghi may have come up with an offer that allows the Eurozone to stagger through the all-important German elections

15 May 12 3 Comments

Hollande and Merkel dance around the Greece lightning

As Greece heads towards rerun elections, Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam considers whether Europe is heading for a stormy political and economic earthquake

21 Apr 12 18 Comments

Chancellor: We have completely won the argument on austerity

“I am not in, as the chancellor of the exchequer, a daily opinion poll contest and a daily popularity contest. I will tell you what I am engaged in. A daily contest with the rest of the world

07 Dec 11 11 Comments

Euro-bazooka disarmed, here comes new Euro-bazooka 2.0

Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam says the European Financial Stability Facility bailout fund is being “quietly forgotten” in favour of the European Stability Mechanism.

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