I think at this stage, three things are worth noting:
1. For all the noise yesterday — a deal was never likely. Yesterday was not — as I repeatedly noted — a ‘hard’ deadline.
There has been a lot of movement in the past 24 hours. Here’s five quick thoughts on where we are now.
1. On last night’s ECB move some of the best analysis comes from Tomas Hirst, Dan Davies and Karl Whelan. All three are seriously…
So, now we’re into round two of the big “Syriza versus Troika” superfight and, as Karl says, the pushing and shoving and flexing of muscles has begun. Yanis Varoufakis might be beginning the process of learning that it’s not a good idea to make policy on the hoof in newspaper…
In a sharp piece of analysis this weekend Paul Mason drew on a military analogy to explain the opening moves in Greece’s negotiations with the Troika (the European Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank).
The plight of the German saver is now a hardy perennial of financial news stories. As the ECB…