Rick Steves' Greece: Athens & the Peloponnese amazon.com
Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis - By Matthew Lynn amazon.com
Greece's 'Odious' Debt: The Looting of the Hellenic Republic by the Euro, the Political Elite and the Investment Community - By Jason Manolopoulos amazon.com
Understanding the Crisis in Greece: From Boom to Bust - By Theodore Pelagidis amazon.com
The Imminent Crisis: Greek Debt and the Collapse of the European Monetary Union amazon.com
Eyewitness Greece - Athens and the Mainland - 352 Pages
Financial markets and economic growth in Greece, 1986-1999 [An article from: Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money]
Athens Demographics:
The population count for Athens was 10,964,020 in 2001. According to eurostat, in 2008 Greece had a total estimated population of 11,262,000. Of this, some 695,979 are estimated to be non-Greek.
Pireas and the Acropolis in Greece. Source: Big Stock Photo
June 22, 2010
Moody: Chance of Greek debt restructure "small"
Wall Street Journal reporting. After knocking Greece's credit from A3 to Ba1 ("junk status") last week and causing a lot of trouble for Papandreou in the process (he had wanted to issue new bonds in July), Moody has helpfully propped up the consistent statements from both Greece and the european Central Bank that there would be now Greek default:
"Moody's Investors Service Sovereign Risk Unit Managing Director Bart Oosterveld said Tuesday that it's very unlikely but not inconceivable that Greece would restructure its debt.
Oosterveld said a restructuring in the short term would be "very hard" to expect and in the medium term, it's not inconceivable but the probability is small.
"We think it's a low probability but not inconceivable," said Oosterveld.
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