DPC Fifth Avenue after a snow storm 1905 • EU’s Juncker Wants To Scrap Troika’s Mission To Greece (Reuters) • Croatia Just Canceled The Debts Of Its Poorest Citizens (WaPo) • Greece’s Problems Result From Eurozone Having No Fiscal Policy (Guardian) • Greece Asks ECB to Keep Banks Afloat as Debt Deal Sought (Bloomberg) • Greece Wants Special ECB Help While Going ‘Cold Turkey’ on Aid (Bloomberg) • My Friend Yanis, The Greek Minister Of Finance (Steve Keen) • Obama
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William Henry Jackson Steamboat Metamora of Palatka on the Ocklawaha, FL 1902 • Europe’s Creditors Play With ‘Political Fire’ Pushing Greece To The Brink (AEP) • To Escape Economic Hell, Greece Needs Tsipras To Call Germany’s Bluff (Guardian) • As In 1942, Germany Must Show Restraint Over Greece (Cockburn) • The Country That Refuses to Bow Down to Western Bankers (AlterNet) • Greece Hires Lazard To Advise On Debt (FT) • Greece Will Repay ECB, IMF, Reach Deal With EU,
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DPC Grand Central Station and Hotel Manhattan, NY 1903 On the one hand, I’ve written so much about Greece lately I fear I’m reaching overkill. On the other hand, there’s so much going on with Greece, and so fast, that I wouldn’t know here to begin. Moreover, I’m thinking and trying to figure what is what and what is actually happening so much it’s hard to stay focused for more than a short while before something else happens again and
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DPC The Manhattan landmark Flatiron Building under construction 1902 • Crude Settles Up 8% At $48.24, Best Day Since June 2012 (Reuters) • OPEC Oil Output Rises In January (Reuters) • The Oil Collapse Isn’t Stopping America’s Investment in Energy (Bloomberg) • BEA Estimates 4th Quarter 2014 US GDP Growth To Be 2.64% (CMI) • Fed’s Bullard Warns of Asset Bubble Risk If Rates Are Kept Too Low (Bloomberg) • Investors Wrong Not to Expect Mid-Year Rate Rise: Bullard (Bloomberg)
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Harris&Ewing “Pennsylvania Avenue with snow, Washington, DC” 1918 • Commodity Prices Collapse To Lowest In 12 Years (Telegraph) • Cheap Oil Burns $390 Billion Hole in Investors’ Pockets (Bloomberg) • China Shadow Banking Trusts Fuel Stocks With 28% Jump in Investment (Bloomberg) • Europe Stocks Head for Best January Since 1989 (Bloomberg) • Eurozone Slides Deeper Into Deflation (CNBC) • We Must Stop Angela Merkel’s Bullying Or Let Austerity Win (Guardian) • Lies, Damned Lies And Greece’s Debt Default (MarketWatch)
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Edwin Rosskam Shoeshine, 47th Street, Chicago’s main Negro business street 1941 First off, no, I don’t think Syriza is a problem, I just couldn’t resist the Sound of Music link once it popped into my head, as in ‘headlines you can sing’. I think Syriza may well be a solution, if it plays its cards right. But that still leaves politicians and investors denominating Tsipras et al as a problem, if not a menace. Now, investors may not need to
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Unknown Crack salesmen ‘Going East’ on streamliner City of San Francisco 1936 • What The Oldest Stock Market Index Is Telling Us (MarketWatch) • I Am So Bearish, I Am Growing Fur! (MarketWatch) • The Euro Is Crashing Below Parity And Will Get Cheaper Still (MarketWatch) • Goldman Cuts Outlook For Whole Commodity Sector (CNBC) • Three Myths About Greece’s Enormous Debt Mountain (Telegraph) • Investors Have Woken Up To Greece’s Nuclear Risk (AEP) • Tsipras Aims to Avert Catastrophe
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Harris&Ewing “Street scene with snow, F STreet Washington, DC” 1918 • Why Europe Will Cave to Greece (Bloomberg) • Can Europe Resist Greek Demands For A Debt Haircut? (CNBC) • How Wall Street Squeezed Greece – And Germany (MarketWatch) • Five Things Syriza Wants To Change (BBC) • Greece’s Coming Clash in Europe Starts With Russia Sanctions (Bloomberg) • Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis: ‘End The Vicious Cycle’ (CNBC) • Greek PM Alexis Tsipras Unveils Cabinet Of Mavericks And Visionaries (Guardian)
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DPC Delaware, Lackawanna and Western R.R. yards, Scranton, PA 1900 • Greece Debt Repayment In Full Is ‘Unrealistic’, Says Syriza (BBC) • Greece’s Crazy Leftists Have a Good Idea (Bloomberg Ed.) • Dawn Of A New Politics In Europe? (Steve Keen) • Profile: Greece’s New Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis (Guardian) • Yanis Varoufakis: Greece’s New Finance Minister Is No Extremist (Telegraph) • EU Hunts Formula to Keep Greece in Euro After Tsipras Win (Bloomberg) • Church And State In Greece:
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Matson Aircraft refueling at Semakh, British Mandate Palestine 1931 In what universe is it a good thing to have over half of the young people in entire countries without work, without prospects, without a future? And then when they stand up and complain, threaten them with worse? How can that possibly be the best we can do? And how much worse would you like to make it? If a flood of suicides and miscarriages, plummeting birth rates and doctors turning
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