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 20, 2010
"Railroaded"
United Press International on how Hellenic Railways was used as an accounting sleight-of-hand to keep $13 billion hidden:
"Debt-burdened Hellenic Railways in Greece has given the government a cover for billions of dollars of debt, a former chief executive officer said.
The railway, $13 billion in debt, "was an accounting trick, another good way for the government to hide its debt," The New York Times quoted former railway CEO John Mourmouris as saying.
The railroad is one of several state-owned businesses that have allowed Greece to keep a total of $33 billion of debt off of its own books, although it agreed to count these as debt with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund when negotiating for emergency loans, the newspaper said."
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