Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Greece: Survey finds 2013 household budgets devastated, inequality persists


Greece: Survey finds 2013 household budgets devastated, inequality persists


the email address you provided does not seem to be valid. The rate of decline in 2013 shows a deceleration compared to the -10.2 percent posted in 2012. Austerity measures with further salary and pension cuts and tax hikes resulted in a change in the ...


Greece: dockworkers announce actions against privatization


(ANSAmed) - ATHENS, SEPTEMBER 16 - The federation of Greek dockworkers (OMYLE) and the dockworker union of Piraeus have announced a series of actions scheduled for Thursday to protest government plans to privatize Greeks ports, as daily To Vima online reports.


9/16: Today in G-History


1875: RUSS POWELL, who played a watchman in "King Kong", is born in Indianapolis. 1892: WALTER E. KELLER, production designer on "Earth vs. the Spider", is born. 1912: VICTOR O. SCHIPEK, production manager on "The Godzilla Power Hour", is born in Illinois. 1916: JOHN W. ROGERS, assistant director on ...


Exactly


So our landlord didn't get our text because he lost his contacts. I was forced to tell him by email that we want our deposit back, and that we want the cost of a moving truck. He said that he requires that Greg provide the termination notice and then he will "let us" leave with 60 days notice. I bas ...


ThE Opinion


Русские - нация героев, нация недостойных уважения и проклятых по определению, вновь помешала Украине стать цивилизованной страной и подписать соответствующий договор об ассоциации с Европой. Сама Европа второй раз предает Украину и отдает ее своему жандарму на растерзание эффективному, но подлому д ...


Estonia#1, Greece#27, U.S.#32!


Cato Institute Senior Fellow, Dan Mitchell The above rankings relate to International Tax Competitiveness. What an enormous embarrassment for Americans. Here the Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell outlines the ugly mess in which America finds itself. Wouldn’t you think all candidates running against entr ...


Chinese MSGs in Athens


The opening of Greece’s largest outbound market in the world, that of China, created the conditions for the development of another market, that of tour guides who speak Chinese and can facilitate Chinese visitors during their stay in the country. As reported in Greek newspaper “Kathimerini”, Chinese ...


Israel's Challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean


ΜΟΛΙΣ ΚΥΚΛΟΦΟΡΗΣΕ by Efraim Inbar Middle East Quarterly Fall 2014 About 90 percent of Israel's foreign trade is carried out via the Mediterranean Sea. The East Mediterranean is also important in terms of energy transit. Close to 5 percent of global oil supply and 15 percent of global liquefied natur ...


PM & Deputy PM @ Athens Forum


Speaking at the Athens Forum 2014 - Democracy under Pressure event held at the Acropolis Museum yesterday, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said that Greece has returned from the brink of collapse, while "lauding the country’s ability to keep going through the damaging effects of the crisis." The even ...


12th Century Manuscript Returned by Getty


A rare 12th-century manuscript scribed by Theoktistos that was returned to Greece just a few days ago from the J. Paul Getty Museum in California will be exhibited at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens until the end of October, before it goes back to the Holy Monastery of Dionyssiou on Mou ...


16/9/2014: More of a Risk, Less of a Bubble: Irish Property Prices in Q1 2014


An interesting BIS paper on House Prices data across a number of advanced economies (http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1409h.htm). A key chart: Data is through Q1 2014 and is based on the aggregate of 8 data sets for Ireland. It is worth noting that data is for Ireland overall, not Dublin. In the n ...


Economist: “This is Far From Over… They Know There Is a Problem Coming”


By Max Slavo Well known Shadow Stats economist John Williams has warned time and again that the narrative being crafted by government statisticians, elite bankers and politicians is nothing but smoke and mirrors. With an election coming up in just a couple months, it’s highly unlikely that they’ll c ...



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