Path to Grexit tragedy paved by political incompetence

Path to Grexit tragedy paved by political incompetence Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley Since our last episode, the crisis in Greece has escalated further. Negotiations between the government and its creditors collapsed over the weekend, and restrictions on bank withdrawals will now follow. The next step is for the government to issue the equivalent of IOUs to pay salaries and pensions. The country is seemingly on the slippery slope to exiting the euro. Many of us doubted that it would come to this. In particular, I doubted that it would come to this. Nearly a decade ago, I analyzed…