Greeks, Seeking Access to Health Care, Stuff Envelopes
- Avik Roy From forbes.com
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- November 17, 2011
In the land where Hippocrates was born, and the principle of selfless medicine invented, it has come to this: desperate Greek patients stuffing envelopes full of cash, in order to convince a doctor to...
New York Greeks Reel as Homeland Continues Slide
By Connor Adams Sheets
International Business Times
Members of New York's sizeable Greek-American population are reeling from the most recent developments in their home country, which threaten to ...
Greece is a Trading Partner for California Company
By Eve Troeh
From the Marketplace Morning Report
Greece is not a major trade partner for the U.S. But there's one California company that has a very specific role in Greece right now.
Jeremy Hobson...
The Euro Crisis: Lessons From Bear Stearns
Europe can't afford to bail out Italy, so it might as well send the right message now by forcing Greece to restructure its debt.
By David Skeel
From the Wall Street Journal
Ask a European officia...
Germany's Underlying Mediterranean Envy
By Todd G. Bughholz
The New York Times
GREECE is broke and broken. Its budget deficit bulges near 10 percent of gross domestic product, while the Germans choke theirs down to just 1.5 percent.
A...
Primitive Beats Ineffective
- Costas Iordanidis - Kathimerini
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- October 06, 2011
George Papandreou’s government has well and truly entered the zone of the surreal with its ministers increasingly looking like heroes in a Dostoevsky novel, who, unafraid of the ludicrous, march ahead...
Greece: A Lost Cause
Financial Times
Greece is a lost cause. No amount of fiddling, massaging or austerity is going to get the country to meet its fiscal targets for 2011. It may be that the Greek government is ducking...
Greece Should Default and Abandon the Euro
- Nouriel Roubini
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- September 29, 2011
Greece is stuck in a vicious cycle of insolvency, low competitiveness and ever-deepening depression. Exacerbated by a draconian fiscal austerity, its public debt is heading towards 200 per cent of gro...
Returning Greece to the Drachma
by Martin Hutchinson
Reuters Breaking Views
The standard of living reached in Greece since it joined the European Union means austerity will be inadequate to rebalance the economy. Returning Greec...
Could Israel and Turkey go to war?
By Soner Cagaptay - Special to CNN
The Arab Spring and recent dramatic deterioration of Turkish-Israeli ties present Israel with a uniquely threatening security environment. Since 1949, Israel has a...
Inside the Volcano: How Debt Destroyed a Country
By Nancy F. Koehn
New York Times
GOVERNMENT debt has been top of the mind this summer. As Congress and the White House played a dangerous game of political brinkmanship over the federal debt ceil...
Democracy’s Cradle, Rocking the World
by Mark Mazower - The New York Times
On June 28, 2011, the whole world was watching Greece as its Parliament voted to pass a divisive package of austerity measures that could have critical ramifica...
The French plan for Greece: Doomed to fail
By John T. Sullivan
(Reuters) - The French Plan for restructuring Greece's national debt will fail for several reasons.
The plan draws some of its framework from the historic Brady Plan that aro...
Denying Reality in Greece, A Country That Can’t Be Fixed
- Tim Shufelt Financial Post
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- June 30, 2011
To fix Greece, a modern country built on the ruins of past civilizations, is to impose a modern financial blueprint on the ruins of its failed economy.
Greece is insolvent. That’s due, in part, to in...
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