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ThinkstockAfter months of wrangling, disagreement and partial compromise, Greece does not have the money it needs to avoid default. The Greek government claims it has gone along with all the...
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thinkstockThe most important story out of Europe today is that Greece has been given an extension to reach its austerity and budget goals. The region’s finance ministers did not have any options....
thinkstockHold your hand up if you are just about as sick of hearing about Greece. The Greek people are being forced into more pain and the nation seems to need more and more money and more and more...
thinkstockAs hard as it seems to be to believe, the crisis in Greece continues, and may have gotten worse. The nation’s parliament has voted through an extreme austerity budget that was to be the...
ThinkstockThe Greek government’s statistical agency this morning reported that the country’s unemployment rate in August rose to 25.4%, from 24.8% in July and 18.4% in August of 2011. Among those...
thinkstockThe Greeks continued to prove that they can be their own worst enemies. Constant strikes there take businesses offline and almost certainly hurt the flow of tourism critical to the economy....
thinkstockGreek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says that Greece could be ousted the eurozone if the debt-laden country’s parliament fails to approve a new round of austerity measures. The...
thinkstockGreece cannot seem to work its way out of the financial news by settling on austerity programs that would trigger aid from the International Monetary Fund and European Union. Internal...
The EU statistics agency Eurostat reports that the unemployment rate in the eurozone climbed to a record 11.6% in September. That was up from the 11.5% reported for August, and exceeded the 11.5%...
thinkstockEurope’s financial problems were pushed off the front pages for a few days as Hurricane Sandy roared up the East Coast. But they did not go away, and they may have worsened. The debate...
Wikimedia CommonsSandy and Amazon Which industries benefited from Hurricane Sandy? Very few, one has to suppose. But among those must be e-commerce, which means another victory for Amazon.com Inc....
thinkstockEurope’s economic problems will be pushed off of the front pages, at least while the East Coast braces for Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath. But the bailout of Greece is in real trouble....
Just last week we featured the nations with the world’s highest unemployment rates. Of course it is only logical that Greece would have been in on that list. What was surprising was that the...