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With Wi-Fi Aboard, Be Careful What You Click
I’M a Modernist, devoted to Mies, postwar abstraction and flying. In the last year or so, I’ve been in Amman, Paris, Venice, Athens, Boston, London, Naples, Dublin, Rome, Reykjavik, Milan, ...
Moscow, Rome, Paris, Memphis, Amman, All keywords...
nytimes.com
2 days ago
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Border burden : Greece struggles to deal with a European problem
GUARDING their nation’s frontiers has traditionally been an honourable task for Greeks. These days they are almost begging for foreign assistance. Greece’s borders have become the gateway of choice for ...
European Union, Greece, EUR, Athens, USD, All keywords...
economist.com
2 weeks ago
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Finding Swimming Pools with Google Earth: Greek Government Hauls in Billions in Back Taxes
The so-called troika of the European Union (EU), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank (ECB) has been in the country again since Monday of last week. ...
Greece, Nikolaos Logothetis, Athens, Google, Ioannis Kapeleris, All keywords...
spiegel.de
1 month ago
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A special report on debt: Repent at leisure
Debt increased at every level, from consumers to companies to banks to whole countries. The effect varied from country to country, but a survey by the McKinsey Global Institute found ...
European Union, Greece, Ireland, USD, America, All keywords...
economist.com
1 month ago
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Global stocks rally on earnings
The Euro hit a two-month high against the dollar on Tuesday as Greece successfully returned to the capital markets, while stocks rallied for the sixth straight session following a strong ...
Greece, USD, Athens, Walter Brandimarte, NEW YORK, All keywords...
ca.reuters.com
1 month ago
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Greece puts its islands up for sale to save economy
There's little that shouts "seriously rich" as much as a little island in the sun to call your own. For Sir Richard Branson it is Neckar in the Caribbean, the ...
Greece, European Union, Makis Perdikaris, EUR, Greek government, All keywords...
guardian.co.uk
2 months ago
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Debt-ridden Greece gets vote of confidence from China
Greece's debt-ridden economy has received unexpected endorsement from China as the two countries announced multibillion euro accords to boost cooperation in fields as diverse as shipping, tourism and telecommunications. The ...
China, Greece, USD, George Papandreou, Olive oil, All keywords...
guardian.co.uk
2 months ago
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Greece Cut to Junk by Moody’s on ‘Substantial’ Risks
Greece’s credit rating was cut to non-investment grade by Moody’s Investors Service, threatening to further undermine demand for the nation’s assets as it struggles to rein in the euro region’s ...
Moody, Greece, London, European Union, GDP, All keywords...
bloomberg.com
2 months ago
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Moving the Markets: Europe Looks to Break US Ratings Monopoly
But even if the ratings agencies have taken a beating since the financial crisis, an alternative rating system is not yet in sight. Credit ratings are still an important decision-making ...
Spain, United States, Brian Coulton, Moody's, Fitch, All keywords...
spiegel.de
3 months ago
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French Connection: The Eurozone Crisis Worsens Sharply
By Peter Boone and Simon Johnson The big news is France.� With sentiment worsening across Europe, France has lost its relative safe haven status 13 credit default swap spreads on ...
Greece, European Central Bank, France, Europe, French government, All keywords...
baselinescenario.com
3 months ago
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Will Europeans accept a generation of 'austerity'?
When it gets dark the drug dealers come out in Exarchia Square. The students walk past them in little groups, deep in argument and abstract thought. Posters shout at you ...
Europe, BBC Radio, Correspondent, Athens, Exarchia Square, All keywords...
news.bbc.co.uk
3 months ago
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List of Unemployment Rates for all Major Metropolitan Areas in the US
Unemployment Rates for Metropolitan Areas Monthly Rankings Not Seasonally Adjusted Mar. 2010
Washington, Rochester, Springfield, Portland, Columbia, All keywords...
bls.gov
3 months ago
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Treat the Disease, Not the Symptoms
Good Evening: U.S. stocks retreated for the fourth time in five days on Wednesday as our capital markets struggled to digest both ill-advised trading policies out of Germany and weak ...
European Union, Germany, Jack McHugh, United States, Europe, All keywords...
ritholtz.com
3 months ago
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E.U. Sends First Installment to Greece
PARIS — The European Union transferred €14.5 billion to Greece on Tuesday, the first installment of E.U. funds under the rescue package worked out by the European Union and the ...
PARIS, Spain, European Central Bank, Greece, International Monetary Fund, All keywords...
nytimes.com
3 months ago
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A Question From Lydia
By the time I got there last Sunday, the fire at the Marfin Egnatia Bank on Stadiou Street here had been extinguished, but the charcoal smell of the torched bank ...
Marfin Egnatia Bank, Athens, Dov Seidman, Bank, Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times, All keywords...
nytimes.com
3 months ago
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