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.
June 9, 2010
Confidence continues to turn negative with investors
Rich Miller at Bloomberg Businessweek has coverage of an unpleasant survey for the eurozone: 73% of investors polled believe the IMF/eurozone bailout will not succeed, and the collapse of the euro is inevitable. In simple terms, many believe the euro is too strong a currency for some member states, and those countries will be forced to quit the euro to ease internal pressures:
" Global investors have little confidence in Europe’s efforts to contain its debt crisis or in European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, with 73 percent calling a default by Greece likely.
Only 23 percent say they expect the region’s almost $1 trillion rescue package to both keep the European monetary union together and prevent a debt default by a government, according to a quarterly poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers. More than 40 percent say Greece is likely to abandon the euro.
... Fifteen percent of those polled say it’s likely Spain would be forced to dump the euro as its currency to help ease the pain on its economy. One in five see Portugal making that move.
...Investors in Europe are about evenly split on Trichet’s performance at the central bank. Forty-eight percent give him an unfavorable rating, while 46 percent see him in a positive light. The rest have no opinion."
The article also contains a quick overview of the situation for the United States vis-a-vis the european currency issues.
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