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So pay the fine in Drachma.

Really, short of sending a gunboat to Athens, there's fuck all you can do against a determined push to gank the oligarchs.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu May 19th, 2011 at 03:36:00 AM EST
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But, Jake, you'll have to tell me what the point of all this is if not to stay in the good graces of EU heavyweights. Otherwise, Greece would already be Argentina.
by Upstate NY on Thu May 19th, 2011 at 09:02:47 AM EST
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The way things are going, Papandreou may soon be De la Rúa.

Economics is politics by other means
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu May 19th, 2011 at 09:06:20 AM EST
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