A couple of items on Greece: First, Mike-Frank Epitropoulos, who is working on an article for us on the Greek debt/default situation, sent us this image. The German magazine Focus ran a cover story headlined "Cheats in the Euro Family," with an image of the Venus de Milo giving (the rest of Europe) the finger. The Greeks were outraged, with one newspaper, Eleftheros Typos, saying that Europe is "threatened by financial naziism," according to the Wall Street Journal's blog The Source. And then there was the magazine cover response. I can't find a translation of the headline, and my Greek is rusty (and was always archaic anyhow).
Then there's this juicy piece from last Friday's Financial Times. The FT's headline writers couldn't resist the term "Greek drama," but the photo that went with this article in the print edition was especially nice: a view of the sun-drenched rooftop restaurant at the Hotel Grande Bretagne in Athens, with the Parthenon in the background; it was not just a gratuitous shot of the Acropolis—this was actually where the hedge-fund managers met to plot their speculative exploits.
Funds' role in Greek drama examined
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