Denial is Not Just a River in Egypt... Or in Turkey
- Eleni Kostopoulos
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- March 12, 2010
NEW YORK- Denial is most often defined as the disbelief in the existence or reality of something. Alcoholics usually deny their addictions. Criminals frequently deny their wrongdoings. Bill Clinton de...
Valuable Soul Searching in Times of Economic Crisis
- Dr. ALEX - Pattakos
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- March 12, 2010
SANTA FE, NM - You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to uncover clues that our country, as well as many other nations around the world, like Greece, are going through difficult times. The unfolding po...
One Year After Obama: What’s Changed on Our Issues?
- Nick Larigakis
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- March 12, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. - As I wrote in my last commentary, it has been more than twelve months since President Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. I asked, “In that time wh...
The Golden Age of Greece Gives Way to the Tin Cup
- Andy Dabilis
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- March 12, 2010
What is this, the aftermath of World War II, when a bankrupt Greece needed the world’s help to survive, and had to depend on Stylianos Kyriakides, the 1946 Boston Marathon winner, to come back to Athe...
“The True Believer”: A Book About Responsibility
- Amb. Patrick N. Theros
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- March 12, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C.- What do Scott Tiller, Paul Hill, Nidal Malik Hasan, James von Brunn, John Patrick Bedell, Timothy James McVeigh and Joseph Stack have in common? They have all murdered, on their own ...
Giannoulias, Kirk, and Broadway Bank
- Steve Sheffey - The Huffington Post
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- March 11, 2010
While we try to sort through the facts about Broadway Bank, let's not forget the most important fact of all: Unless it turns out that Alexi Giannoulias did anything illegal--and no one is alleging tha...
Greece's Problem Is Everyone's Problem
By Edward D. Hess - Business Week
Why is Greece's current financial problem everybody's problem? Not just because what happens anywhere in the global economy affects what happens everywhere else. R...
Euro Unity? It’s Germany That Matters
- The New York Times
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- March 09, 2010
Ten years after the euro, it’s still all about Germany, which isn’t the way it was supposed to be, Celestine Bohlen of Bloomberg News writes in her latest column.
In the run-up to the common curren...
Greece Is Not an Island
- George A. Papandreou - The New York Times
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- March 09, 2010
My country’s economic plight has dominated headlines for months. While many commentators have focused on the underlying problems within Greece, less attention has been paid to my government’s determin...
Nazi Gold starts a German-Greek war of words
- Andy Dabilis - New Europe
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- March 08, 2010
If there was anything the Nazis loved more than killing everyone who didn’t have blonde hairs and blue eyes, it was gold, and they plundered it from every bank they could find during World War II. It ...
Bubbles in the Air & Sharks in the Water: Disaster Pays
- Nikolaos A. Stavrou
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- March 06, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. - It will be an error to attribute the financial collapse of 2008-2009 to the mysterious “market forces”. The financial tsunami that wiped out over twelve trillion dollars of wealth i...
The Greek Crisis, Glass Houses and European Disunion
- Christopher Tripoulas
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- March 06, 2010
NEW YORK - Over the past few months, Greece has been on the receiving end of heavy criticism by its European peers over its finances. And while its true that a lot of Hellas' economic woes are its own...
The Ghosts of Economic Nazis still Haunt Greece
- Andy Dabilis
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- March 06, 2010
Greeks old enough to remember World War II and the occupation by the German army can also recall the withering Greek resistance that broke the spirit of even the Third Reich and made Nazis hide in cit...
The Current Greek Crisis and the Baggage of the Past
- Dr. Andre Gerolymatos
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- March 06, 2010
VANCOUVER, B.C. - A great many people in and out of Greece are pondering why has the country reached such a pathetic state of financial chaos and systemic corruption. One British historian, and a dist...
Out of the Ashes: Innovating with Meaning
- Dr. ALEX - Pattakos
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- March 06, 2010
SANTA FE, N.M. - Innovation is a very hot topic these days. Let’s face it, we’re currently in a period of what could be called creative destruction and efforts by all sectors and industries to revita...
Why Europe Will Bail out Greece - Eventually
- Silvia Wadhwa - CNBC
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- March 05, 2010
No doubt, what the Greeks put on the table in cost cutting and savings is - as ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet put it - "what was required", and there was a collective European sigh of relief that t...
Lessons from the Greek Budget Debacle
- Daniel J. Mitchell - Cato Institute
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- March 04, 2010
Fiscal crises have a predictable pattern.
Step 1 occurs when the economy is prospering and tax revenues are growing faster than forecast.
Step 2 is when politicians use the additional money to i...
Sure sign the Greek crisis is over
- David Callaway
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- March 04, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Blame, in all its forms, is a lagging indicator. So when politicians and regulators start assigning it, the storm is usually over, as it certainly is now with the Greek ...
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