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.
July 16, 2010
Bank mergers on the horizon
Kathimerini on the coming wave of buyouts, sellouts and mergers in the banking sphere:
"If a state-controlled bank is being sold off, then all the parameters, beyond the price of its shares on the stock market, have to be taken into account. In the case of the Hellenic Postbank, for example, one must bear in mind its ample liquidity. If strict rules are not followed, the inevitable wave of mergers will result in either wiping out healthy state-controlled banks or in covering up the financial black holes at poorly managed private lenders."
The problem they are talking about also afflicts the general European banking system. It's hard enough telling which banks are healthy and which are not since the rather opaque reporting regulations allow for plenty of space to manipulate the balance sheets. The same problem is in the United States.
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