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Παρότι απομένουν σημαντικά βήματα να γίνουν, η Ελλάδα του 2025 είναι πολύ διαφορετική από την Ελλάδα του 2019.

1. Ταχεία αύξηση του πραγματικού κατα κεφαλήν ΑΕΠ 2. Το πιο σημαντικό, όμως, η ανεργία έχει μειωθεί περισσότερο από ό,τι αλλού ...

«Ενεργειακός λαϊκισμός»
Άρθρο μου στην σημερινή @Kathimerini_gr 

1. Οι τιμές έχουν αυξηθεί 10-15 φορές όχι 20-30%. Ένας μηνιαίος λογαριασμός 100 ευρώ θα ήταν τώρα 1000+ ευρώ χωρίς επιδότηση. Η έκκληση «όσο πιο γρήγορα προσαρμοστούμε τόσο καλύτερα» είναι προτεσταντικός λαϊκισμός. Είναι όμως και λάθος οικονομική πολιτική. Όπως στην πανδημία, έτσι και τώρα , η βέλτιστη οικονομική πολιτική προτάσσει την παρέμβαση του κράτους για να αποφευχθούν χρεοκοπίες νοικοκυριών και επιχειρήσεων από μια προσωρινή απότομη αύξηση τιμών.

Regarding those who believe that freedom of press has been curtailed in Greece, I have a few front covers featuring yours truly to showcase:

Let’s start with this gem that was published after I publicly came out as a gay advisor of the PM of Greece. It depicts me, Alexia (the female version of Alexis --which is a male name in Greek), partnered with a muscular black “engine lighter” (their words -my partner has African nationality -but is not black- and this is not his photo).

The now-famous New Yorker cover gives a glimpse of post-pandemic life.

There are good reasons to expect a strong economic recovery in Greece. Here are nine: 1. Like elsewhere, Greece has seen a surge in bank deposits, over 24bn EUR, or 14% of GDP since early 2020. Some of this will filter back into the economy as Covid uncertainty subsides.

“Technology means we can now choose where we live and work,” Alex Patelis, chief economic adviser to Prime Minister @kmitsotakis , said in comments to Bloomberg. Greece “can now offer tax incentives as well as the sun,” he said. @business

news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-repo… Greece wants to benefit from its solid record in combating the spread of the coronavirus by inviting people who work from home to move to the country -- and it’s promising that half of their income will be tax-free.

1. Last week Microsoft announced it has selected Greece to build a new data centre region as part of #GRforGrowth, in an investment that is expected to leave an economic footprint of circa 1bn. Greece becomes just the 8th EU member state and the first in the whole of SE Europe Mitsotakis and Smith first broached the issue at January’s Davos WEF meetings. Teams from both sides worked on turning this vision into a reality for months.

1. As we enter the final stretch into a likely early-2021 vaccine rollout, our economic policies face a subtle, but important, pivot:

First, countercyclical fiscal support remains macroeconomically appropriate. We extend existing schemes where necessary. 1/12 Second, employment policies need to shift away from just protecting existing jobs and toward creating new ones.

Third, this is the right time to launch our structural policies. As Project Syndicate and the Economist recently argued, ample fiscal space and monetary support 2/12