Die drei Bücher...

...die ich gerade aus der Bibliothek geholt habe, sind wie ein ironischer Kommentar zur Weltlage:

• Joan Robinson - Ökonomische Theorie als Ideologie ("Über einige altmodische Fragen der Wirtschaftstheorie")
• E. M. Cioran - Vom Nachteil, geboren zu sein. 
• James Knowlson - Damned to Fame (die autorisierte Beckett-Biografie)

Leftkeynesianism, despair, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Yves Smith, deren pessimistische Lesart sich seit Monaten immer wieder auf schmerzhafte Weise bewahrheitet, besteht darauf, dass die 'Einigung' vom Wochenende erst der Beginn eines komplexen, mühsamen Prozesses ist, bei dem von Anfang bis Ende die Gewalt vollständig in den Händen der Troika liegen wird. Und es kann noch sehr viel schief gehen:

When we look at the Greek situation there are far too many things that have to occur for the deal to go through, and the odds for favorable outcomes for just about each one looks to be markedly below 90%. I’m not about to play bookie, but it’s looking uncomfortably likely that the tentative Greece pact will come unglued. And one big factor favoring that outcome: the critical actor, Germany (and specifically, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, whose support as we have stressed is a necessary but not sufficient condition for having a deal be consummated) isn’t highly motivated to salvage the preliminary agreement if it goes off the rails. Schauble has long thought a Grexit was the best solution for Greece; Timothy Geithner’s memoir says Schauble was advocating it in 2012.
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As terrible as this punitive “rescue” seems, the reason that Tsipras and a large number of MPs are pushing it ahead is that the human cost of a Grexit is even worse. If this deal is like having your arm cut off, a Grexit would be tantamount to having both legs amputated.

 Es stehen noch einige lange Nächte bevor.