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Meanwhile, please consider Tsipras Reshuffles Negotiating Team to Sideline Varoufakis . Greece’s outspoken finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has been sidelined after three months of fruitless talks with international creditors to unlock €7.2bn in bailout funds, heartening investors and sparking a rally on the Athens stock market. Eurozone officials said they were encouraged by the move by Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s prime minister, to overhaul his bailout negotiating team in the wake of an acrimonious meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Riga last week
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves
Tweet Bismark is rumored to have pointed out that one should never look took closely at the fabrication of producing sausages and laws. Â In the March 6 issue of Science a number of worthies from various conservation oriented organizations first authored by S.L.
The Dallas Fed reports Texas Manufacturing Activity Weakens Again Texas factory activity declined in April, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.
Originally posted here: Reader Question: Is the Minimum Wage Really a Maximum Wage?
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional
The San Francisco Chronicle details the problem in BART has New Problem: Old Tracks . The nearly half-century-old system needs to replace its worn steel rails and cross ties.
Andy Lacis comments on Judith Curry’s visit to the hall of mirrors at And Then There is Physics , but in the spirit of the think, allow Eli to repost. —————————– Let me toss on here what I posted on ClimateEtc in regard to the recent (April 15, 2015) Science, Space, and Technology Committee Congressional Hearing: As was to be expected, Congressional hearings are more about political posturing rather than being a directed effort of objective information gathering