IMF chief: Greece among the best-performing economies in the Eurozone

Yes,our PM does it consistently, yet we're worse than we were during the crisis. Our actual purchasing power was higher during the crisis than what it is now. The only people benefiting from this are the rich ones and the corrupted politicans. Chek out how many scandals have come to light in the last 6y. Billions of dollars!

Welcome to the first world post-covid experience. That's happening everywhere 

be aware who is announcing the performance assessment. When IMF does so means as much that unfavorable credits taken (which greece relied on not long ago) were handled with discipline (certainly with hardship) and so show results that might allow to lower costs of credits aka call for reevaluating rating/ranking from bad to not so bad. Thats generally a positive message, not that some household could feel that suddenly. a bit like 'IMF here, call us, we propose interesting business opportunities in Greece'.

Because those numbers are for political agendas and their achievement. It’s not telling how the common people struggle.

"Good economy" means that rich people are making money. Everyone knows that

The rich people are getting richer. That's what they're talking about. It's going to trickle down aaaaaaaaaaaaany moment now. You just wait for it.

lol they aren’t talking about performance that benefits people. Did you really think corporations and governments were going to share their success with the plebs?

The issue is that they are talking about growth rates and fiscal deficit change rates. Greece still has one of the biggest debts in the EU, and is one of the countries with the lowest wages etc. But in terms of how much the economy is growing, it may be doing better than other much more advanced economies. I do think after the COVID injection we are seeing southern Europe growing a bit more than northern Europe for many structural reasons. As usual, politicians take the merits of something they are not doing and people feel disconnected with the rosey news.

This dude is just spewing propaganda on any page he can find. If you check his posts he does it again and again. Any time you engage him on anything that actually happens in Greece, like prices relative to median earnings, he will deflect because he only relies on silly little graphs that are out of context.

850 a month is insane. That’s not a livable wage is it?

Stock market performance and general population well being have been uncoupled in our brave new world.

Things are a bit faster, cleaner and more organized but techno feudalism is creeping in. I'm a Belgian who moved to Greece to get work expierence through call centers. I have a here kid now, but I like it here less every year. Im a corporate slave making 1150 net a month. This doesn't exist in western Europe

So you’re saying there’s one more day to increase performance?!

[IMF’s Georgieva: ‘What we see in Greece is what we want to see everywhere’](https://www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1267909/imfs-georgieva-we-want-to-see-everywhere-what-we-see-in-greece/) 😂💀

Come on now. They’re protesting for half that week.

I saw this headline and grimaced lol

Funnily enough that’s way too accurate 😂, there’s a reason Greeks excelled in ship trading, we’re genuinely chameleons. There’s a book and docu series by Stathis Kalyvas (Gladstone Professor of Government, Oxford University) that basically explains how Greece’s ENTIRE modern history is basically a huge success story followed by a colossal disaster that brought Greece into the global news despite its relative small size. Examples : in 1896 Greece hosted the first modern Olympics and had freshly extended kms to its rail system (a must during that time to be considered a civilised country), the next year ? Greece is defeated by the Ottoman Empire in war, the west intervenes before the ottomans sack Athens and Greece is forced to sign a humiliating treaty. The country bankrupted and the [“IMF”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Financial_Commission) of that period had to come in. Another example as fast as I can, Greece 10 years later reforms and successfully wins in both Balkan wars and World War I, reclaiming parts of present day Türkiye were very likely. Greece extends its military zone almost as deep as Ankara. The country loses ( reasons ; western support faded, Russia armed Turkey, Greece was in civil war) and faces the world’s largest migration crisis ever seen till then. Greece successfully hosted people whose amount was 20% of its then population. The list goes on and on. It’s seven 7 disasters and triumphs basically with the most recent one being the Olympics of 2004 followed by Greece’s bankruptcy in 2008 and the European debt crisis. Greece’s revolution was the first armed humanitarian intervention according to historians and international law scholars btw.

I think the Covid anti cyclical response was better tbh, although yeah when we entered the crisis we had a lot of things that we should reform. The deficits we had were not sustainable

It didn't. Her claim only makes sense if you ignore 20 years of performance and cherry pick your moment of "better." The Mitsotakis government's pivot away from austerity is the reason the economy is improving.