Update on the Greek Economic Crisis

Dear, oh dear. It seems that Greece is the issue that won't go away, unsurprisingly, since it was never really resolved in the first place. Greek bond yields are up, and there are fears about its capacity to meet current debt repayments.

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Equally, Germany has made it plain that any future bail out will require IMF involvement and that seems less than straightforward, with the IMF board split over whether or not Greece has made enough progress towards fiscal and debt sustainability.

Greece now runs a primary budget surplus of 1.5% of her GDP - but the terms of the 2015 bail out require this to be 3.5% of GDP. Has austerity go so far that it is having a permanently damaging effect on the competitiveness, capacity and (ultimately) the tax raising capability of the Greek economy?

A primary fiscal surplus refers to a government’s tax revenues exceeding its spending, excluding debt interest payments.

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The BBC here gives a brief synopsis of the state of play in Greece: it's a nice entry level account of the general confusion regarding Greek public finances, the need for austerity and the prospects for another bailout

The FT summarises the ongoing Greek crisis and the future of the debt programme, and bailout. As if there's not enough uncertainty.