RADIO INTERVIEWS/TALKS: A list of interviews/talks follows mainly on the Crisis (global, European, Greek, Irish etc.). My numerous interviews with Doug, which have been tracking the Euro and the Greek crises for years now, present themselves as a running commentary on events in Europe since 2008. Additionally, extensive interviews on a variety of topics are included (e.g. on digital currencies).
Featured Radio Interview: As with most of these pages, I begin with my favourite offering here. As far as radio interviews go, I particularly enjoyed my extensive discussion with CBC’s Eleanor Wachtel (The Writers’ Programme) in which we talked about my family background, the intellectual context in which my book The Global Minotaur emerged, as well as the situation in Europe, in Greece, in the world (8 APR 2013) CLICK HERE
Featured Radio Talk: Here I present the University of Western Sydney’s Inaugural ‘Europe’ Public Lecture. Recorded by the ABC at the State Library of NSW, in Sydney, it was broadcast on ABC Radio National’s ‘Big Ideas’ program on 30th October 2013 CLICK HERE
Featured Radio editorial: On BBC Radio 4 reading a commissioned (by the BBC) essay entitled: “Seismologists versus economists) (Go to 27’09’’) CLICK HERE
A comprehensive list of radio interview podcasts follows
- 11 DEC 2008 – Interviewed by Doug Henwood on the Athens Riots (from 30’ onwards)
- 8 OCT 2009 – Interviewed by Doug Henwood on the PASOK electoral victory of the previous month (up front)
- 2 FEB 2010 – On BBC Business Daily, debating Otmar Issing on Greece and the Eurozone
- 8 MAR 2010 – Interviewed by Doug Henwood on Europe and Greece (from 32’). This interview was recorded as Greece was falling down the deep hole that was to shape its long term future. And to begin the domino effect that infolded throughout Europe in the following months.
- 31 MARCH 2010 – On BBC Business Daily, explaining why Greece cannot get out of its predicament without a default and without a Eurozone reconfiguration
- 27 APRIL 2010 – On BBC World Business News, outlining the main cause of the Euro and Greek Crisis: the lack of a surplus recycling mechanism
- 27 APR 2010 – On BBC World Business News discussing the downgrade of Greek debt and impossibility of avoiding a Greek default
- 2 MAY 2010 – On BBC Newshour, on the occasion of the 1st Greek ‘Bailout’, warning that it was a program bound for spectacular failure
- 3 MAY 2010 – On BBC Radio 5’s Wake Up to the Money program (jump to 3’) in which I tried to explain the illogicality of the Greek Bailout Program; a bailout not of Greece but one for the euro. And of the Bailout’s great repercussions for the rest of the Eurozone countries of the failure to default instead of singing on a the doted line of a huge debt to a bankrupt state
- 5 MAY 2010 – On ABC Radio National AM program discussing the causes of Greece’s meltdown
- 6 MAY 2010 – On BBC World Service Newshour on the day after the 1st Greek Bailout Agreement was signed and announced. Arguing that the Agreement was bound to fail even if “every Greek complies”. (Go to 40’)
- 7 MAY 2010 – On ABC Radio National World Today discussing new demonstrations against austerity in Athens and the sacking of government ministers in Athens for not supporting the Bailout conditions
- 12 MAY 2010 – On ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live discussing the death of the Marfin Bank workers in Athens, the Greek economic collapse and the Euro Crisis (Go to 12’)
- 18 MAY 2010 – On Citizen Radio BTR on What caused the Euro Crisis and Greece’s ‘fall’ (Go to 29’50’’)
- 27 MAY 2010 – On ABC Radio National’s Overnights program discussing the real causes of the Greek meltdown
- 9 SEP 2010 – Interviewed by Doug Henwood, discussing Michael Lewis’ Vanity Fair article about Greece and, also, the recent development in the Greek economic debacle (Go to 30’)
- 23 OCT 2010 – Interviewed by Doug Henwood, On Greece, the Euro Crisis and the perfect lack of any macroeconomic logic behind the policies imposed upon the member-states of the Eurozone (Go to 28’)
- 15 NOV 2010 – On BBC World Service Newshour, discussing the ‘discovery’ that the Greek government’s budget deficit exceeded 15% (Go to 19’48’’)
- 20 NOV 2010 – Interviewed by Doug Henwood, discussing the first version of our Modest Proposal to Resolve the Euro Crisis (Go to 26’50”)
- 28 NOV 2010 – On Newstalk Radio (Ireland), interviewed by Karen Coleman (for ‘Wide Angle’), discussing the inevitable contagion from Greece to Ireland due to the ill-designed Greek rescue program
- 22 DEC 2010 – On BBC Newhour, discussing the demonstrations that have caused Athens to paralyse and what lies behind them (Go to 23’20’’)
- 30 JAN 2011 – On BBC Radio 4 reading a commissioned (by the BBC) essay entitled: “Seismologists versus economists) (Go to 27’09’’)
- 7 MAR 2011 – On BBC World Service Business News, discussing the latest downgrade of Greek government debt, in which I argued that “the fact of the matter is that Greek debt is on an unsustainable path” and that the hitherto criminally negligent credit rating agents were, on this occasion, correct.
- 28 APR 2011 – On BBC World Service World Today saying that “the Greek default is an inevitability”
- 7 MAY 2011 – On BBC World Business Report exposing the subterfuge behind Der Spiegel’s report that the Greek government was planning to leave the Eurozone
- 14 MAY 2011 – On BBC World Service Newshour, discussing George Papandreou’s declaration that there will be no debt restructuring and no default, proclaiming a great privatization drive – arguing that Papandreou is increasingly resembling King Canute (Go to 23’)
- 4 JUN 2011 – Interviewed by Dough Henwood, discussing Martin Wolf’s FT article according to which the Eurozone has been found wanting; that it is failing (Go to 27’37’’)
- 16 JUN 2011 – On BBC World Service World Business News, discussing the question of whether Greece will default on its debts or not
- 17 JUN 2011 – On BBC World Service ‘World Have Your Say’ debating Daniel Gross. (Go to 38’)
- 17 JUN 2011 – On ABC Radio National AM program, discussing Papandreou’s offer to quit in the context of the inevitability of a Greek default
- 29 JUN 2011 – On China International Radio, debating the political turmoil in Athens
- 29 JUN 2011 – On KPCC, South California Public Radio arguing that Europe should stop treating insolvency problems as if they were liquidity difficulties. To stop treating the Greek implosion as if independent of the Eurozone’s bad design (Go to 13’40’’)
- 6 AUG 2011 – On BBC Radio Scotland, discussing downgrade of US debt by S&P
- 16 AUG 2011 – On BBC World Service World Today, discussing eurobonds and my proposal of ECB bonds
- 20 AUG 2011 – Interviewed by Doug Henwood, discussing the Eurozone and the spread of the crisis to Spain and Italy (Got o 29’)
- 22 AUG 2011 – Hour long radio interview (‘Sound Money’ program, 91.5FM WNYE New York) on the Global Crisis, the Eurozone crisis and the Modest Proposal
- 6 SEP 2011 – On BBC World Service, World Today, debating the prospects of a double dip recession, arguing that it is inevitable
- 8 SEP 2011 – On BBC World Service Assignment program, taking part in Ed Butler’s program ‘The Indignants of Greece’
- 12 SEP 2011 – On BBC World Service Business News, discussing French banks’ exposure to Greek debt, plus a new, hideous tax imposed on Greek householders
- 19 SEP 2011 – On ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live, debating The Global Minotaur versus the Age of Greed: Philip Adams in the chair
- 21 SEP 2011 – On NPR, arguing in favour of a Greek default within the Eurozone
- 26 SEP 2011 – On NPR’s Morning News, on the utter irrationality of Greece’s austerity program (Go to 1’53’’)
- 27 SEP 2011 – On CBC Radio’s ‘As it Happens’ program, suggesting that the debt crisis is made worse through austerity in a country caught up in a triple crisis – debt, investment and banking crisis (Go to 5’)
- 12 JUN 2014 – On ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live, discussing the ‘European Question’ with Phillip Adams
- 21 AUG 2014 – On ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live, discussing the Australian Federal Government’s Austerian Budget, with Phillip Adams
- 9 SEP 2014 – Discussing Scottish Independence and the demerits of a Sterling Union on KPFA Radio (Berkeley, CA)
- 24 NOV 2014 – Taking stock of the Euro Crisis: Interviewed by Doug Henwood for BEHIND THE NEWS