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Portuguese near-default crisis – a rountable in the “black week”

A virtual roundtable with 5 economists and financial analysts
Mark Thoma, professor, University of Oregon, USA
Peter Cohan, CEO Peter Cohan & Associates, Boston, USA
Bill Witherell, Chief Global Economist, Cumberland Advisors, global financial company
David Caploe, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com, Singapore
Gary A. Dymski, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside, USA

THE FATE OF GREECE – INSIGHTS FROM ATHENS

“The end of an era or the model of doing things Greek style has no future. Put bluntly, the Greece of yesteryear is bankrupt.”
A conversation with Jens Bastian, economist at ELIAMEP, Athens.

“Excessive focus on deficits risks making unemployment problem worse” – Kevin O’Rourke

An Interview with Professor Kevin O’Rourke, Irish economist and economic historian: “Excessive focus on deficits risks making unemployment problem worse.”

Daniel Gros: Portugal needs a deep cut in nominal wages

Daniel Gros, director of the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), in a short interview about the Portuguese financial situation, one week after a huge speculation in Greek debt and following his article in the Financial Times about the differences inside the Club PIGS.