Greece’s
gross debts add up to around $320 billion in nominal value, according
to the International Monetary Fund. That’s big compared to the
Greek economy, but tiny compared to the world outside. It’s less
than 3% of the entire eurozone economy, which is about $13.5
trillion. So even if Greece refused to pay one more nickel of its
debts — an outcome no one is suggesting — the eurozone could make
up the difference with about eight days’ output ... or an
hour’s money-printing by the ECB.
Yanis Varoufakis On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide.
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