
News on manspreading from Reuters: Aug 27 (Reuters) – Feeling hangry? Can’t find a seat on the subway because of manspreading? Annoyed by people butt-dialing you? All three slang words officially joined OxfordDictionaries.com on Thursday in a quarterly update of popular
by Reuters27 Aug 2015, 9:37 AM PST0

No scene of political turmoil is complete until somebody gets investigated by prosecutors. Such is the fate of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who has become a darling of the anti-austerity, hardcore left ever since he departed his office on the eve of the 11th-hour bailout deal.
by John Hayward30 Jul 2015, 7:58 PM PST0

FRANKFURT, July 29 (Reuters) – The European Central Bank said on Wednesday that the euro zone’s founding members had diverged economically, a “disappointing” outcome that goes against the premise that a common currency would let laggards slowly catch up. Central
by Reuters29 Jul 2015, 3:07 AM PST0

From Reuters: Greek banks are set to keep broad cash controls in place for months, until fresh money arrives from Europe and with it a sweeping restructuring, officials believe. Rehabilitating the country’s banks poses a difficult question. Should the euro zone
by Breitbart London26 Jul 2015, 1:31 AM PST0

The Greek parliament last night comfortably passed a second set of reforms in order to continue talks on a new bailout, although the governing Syriza is now deeply divided. Dozens of hardliners with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s party rebelled, effectively
by Nick Hallett23 Jul 2015, 4:24 AM PST0

Today the Greek bailout plan comes before the German parliament (the Bundestag), the latest approval hurdle for the third bailout package which nobody believes will work. Ratification of the €86 million rescue deal is expected, notwithstanding yesterday’s comments from Germany’s Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang
by Sarkis Zeronian17 Jul 2015, 4:12 AM PST0

The Greek parliament voted last night to accept tough new austerity measures, despite the people rejecting similar measures in a referendum just over a week ago. Angry protesters took to the streets to denounce the move, which they saw as
by Breitbart London16 Jul 2015, 4:16 AM PST0

Anyone who has ever witnessed the terminal struggles of insects in a killing bottle will recognise the nature of the paroxysms contorting the EU “leaders” today. The Greek pantomime is beyond parody. It is a shadow-boxing contest between two factions of the
by Gerald Warner15 Jul 2015, 12:31 AM PST0

Britain could face a bill of up to £850m for latest Greek bailout as European leaders desperately search for money for the heavily indebted nation. Although Britain is signed up to an emergency EU fund, Prime Minister David Cameron believes
by Nick Hallett14 Jul 2015, 6:47 AM PST0

Stocks rallied on Monday amid news that the Greek financial crisis was under control, and a bailout deal had been agreed upon, but that might have been a hasty celebration.
by John Hayward13 Jul 2015, 9:20 PM PST0

The seemingly final deadline for serious Greek proposals in the debt showdown was Friday morning, and some paperwork was indeed delivered on schedule, inducing some optimism that a Greek exit from the Euro would be averted. Depending on who you ask, the deal is either a stunning triumph or disastrous capitulation for either Greece or its creditors.
by John Hayward10 Jul 2015, 6:51 PM PST0

All sorts of deadlines have come and gone during the Greek debt crisis—as the basket-case nation’s European creditors repeatedly blinked and decided to grant one extension after another—unwilling to precipitate the pan-European (and possibly global) financial earthquake of a “Grexit” from the Euro.
by John Hayward9 Jul 2015, 7:08 PM PST0

China is teetering on the edge of a 1929-style stock market meltdown, and Greece might be about to exit the Euro. China is worried about what the Grexit, or an even larger collapse of the Euro, might do to its house-of-cards stock market. Everybody else is worried about what a Chinese collapse could do to their markets, especially since Western socialists have sold so much of their own nations to China over the years.
by John Hayward9 Jul 2015, 5:58 PM PST0

The Greek people have “elected a bunch of lunatics,” according to Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary. The entrepreneur’s budget airline has invested heavily in routes to Greece, flying into eight airports across the country and its islands, and the company is
by Donna Rachel Edmunds9 Jul 2015, 3:56 AM PST0

Tech-savvy Greeks are buying expensive items like Macbook laptops and Playstation games consoles in preparation for a potential barter economy, as it is perceived the gadgets will retain their value, irrespective of economic collapse or currency change. Bloomberg reports Greeks are
by Oliver Lane8 Jul 2015, 8:45 AM PST0

The Greek financial crisis just got worse. As if the mountain of debt, default and ruination of the EU’s collective economy wasn’t bad enough, now US President Barack Obama has started cold calling European leaders to offer them words of economic counsel.
by Simon Kent8 Jul 2015, 4:10 AM PST0

The beast is wounded – probably mortally – but it will take an inordinately long time to die and in its prolonged death throes it will devastate whole nations’ economies, living standards and dignity. Circle the date ‘5 July 2015’ in your
by Gerald Warner8 Jul 2015, 12:31 AM PST0

With the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker dampening expectations of a speedy resolution to the Greek economic crisis, analysts are again giving apocalyptic visions of the country’s future. PA reports Neil MacKinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital, setting out exactly how bad
by Sarkis Zeronian7 Jul 2015, 4:45 AM PST0

Vladimir Putin is reportedly reaching out to Greek leaders to try to affect the outcome of the recent crisis. On Sunday, Greek voters once again defied European leaders and voted against approving new austerity measures.
by Michael Lucchese6 Jul 2015, 9:52 PM PST0

Greece voted ‘No’ by a landslide in a referendum on the latest EU bailout deal. Here’s what it means: 1. You have just added a new word to your Greek vocabulary. Besides ‘retsina’, ‘souvlaki’, ‘moussaka’, and ‘kalamares’ you now know
by James Delingpole6 Jul 2015, 6:44 AM PST0

From Reuters: Four great crises around Europe’s fringes threaten to engulf the European Union, potentially setting the ambitious post-war unification project back by decades. The EU’s unity, solidarity and international standing are at risk from Greece’s debt, Russia’s role in
by Breitbart London5 Jul 2015, 6:47 AM PST0

BERLIN, July 5 (Reuters) – Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann has warned Angela Merkel’s cabinet that a Greek exit from the euro zone would rip billions of euros out of the German budget, German business daily Handelsblatt reported on Sunday, citing
by Reuters5 Jul 2015, 6:25 AM PST0

Many in Greece and across Europe are coming to terms with the reality that the debt-ridden country may soon have to leave the euro. With Greeks due to go to the polls tomorrow to decide whether to accept the terms
by Nick Hallett4 Jul 2015, 10:19 AM PST0

International reserves, which measure global savings available for financial market investment, have fallen twice this century: once in the first quarter of 2009, and once in the fourth quarter of 2014. That most recent reserve drop is causing some analysts to warn that conditions for a crash may be building.
by Chriss W. Street2 Jul 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Multiple factions within the Turkish government have expressed a willingness to help the Greek government repay its debts to the European Union, from a general statement by Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu that Turkey will do “whatever we can” to help Greece to the nation’s leftist party suggesting a massive loan to the Greek government in solidarity.
by Frances Martel1 Jul 2015, 9:01 AM PST0