Greece a Battlefield for Financial War – Nobel Winner Stiglitz

Thought Leader: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Ph.D

July 21, 2015

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(Original source Sputnik News)

“Nobel prizewinning US economist Joseph Stiglitz warns that the economic situation in Greece may soon repeat itself again elsewhere, Greek media reported on Tuesday.

“It’s a pity that you, Greeks, have to deal with the Troika [of international creditors], whose third memorandum increases inequality and is aimed against the poor,” he told the participants of the George Papandreou symposium on Corfu Island.

Joseph Stiglitz, who is a Professor of Economics at Columbia University in New York, said that, being a battlefield between ideas and financial power, Greece was not the only country standing up against the Big Money diktat.”

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