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Real Austerity for Greece Looming

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4.5979 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, July 6, 2015. I'm Caleb Brown.

0:08.0

Now that Greece is rejected of Brussels Design Fiscal Plan Next Steps for Greece,

0:12.4

the Eurozone, the IMF and Greece's creditors

0:14.6

are less than clear. Mark Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation

0:18.6

Studies at the Cato Institute says the austerity Greece has undertaken so far has left the public sector relatively

0:24.4

untouched.

0:26.1

The stakes of this vote were really about the credibility of the Greek government.

0:30.0

Did they have the support of the general population?

0:33.1

Was the population ready to move forward

0:35.4

and essentially cut a deal with the rest of the EU?

0:38.6

Or did the population essentially want the government

0:41.9

to tougher negotiations to try to get a better deal for Greece.

0:47.0

Certainly some small part of the population might have seen this as a vote for leaving the EU,

0:52.0

but by and large most of the Greek population wants to stay in.

0:55.7

And this really is about the terms of whether they're willing to concede or not on the terms of

1:01.6

the bailout. The EU as a monetary union is deciding what to do.

1:05.0

The IMF is deciding what to do.

1:08.0

What are the options available to those units and what do you call this period?

1:14.8

So we really are in a period of reflection

1:17.0

by the rest of your, what to make of the vote,

1:19.7

what the reaction should be.

1:21.7

Certainly some initial reactions have been you know long lines of well that's

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