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“They crucified Tsipras in there,†a senior eurozone official who had attended the summit remarked. “Crucified.†Demolition of Eurozone Project With crucifixion of Tsipras, and more importantly of the Greek people, Wolfgang Münchau accurately assesses the developments this way: Greece’s Brutal Creditors Have Demolished the Eurozone Project . A few things that many of us took for granted, and that some of us believed in, ended in a single weekend.
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The word of the day is "uncertain". It appears a number of times (in various forms) in Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s speech on Recent Developments and the Outlook for the Economy at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio.
But we do have this headline Tsipras Seeks to Rush Austerity Package Through Greek Parliament . The Greek government is preparing to rush a package of economic reforms and austerity measures through parliament as early as Friday in a bid to convince its eurozone creditors it is committed to striking a deal for a third bailout that would save it from crashing out of the euro.
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The Wall Street Journal provides a case in point with IMF: U.S. Economy at Risk of Stalling Next Year if Fed Raises Rates Prematurely . " The Federal Reserve risks stalling the U.S
Green Car Reports linked to a Forbes article in which Five Top VCs Predict The Future . The CEOs were Jenny Lee of GGV Capital, Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Rebecca Lynn of Canvas Venture Fund, Bill Gurley of Benchmark Partners and Shervin Pishevar of Sherpa Ventures.
Please consider TransAsia Crash Pilot Pulled Wrong Throttle, Shut Down Sole Working Engine . The captain of a TransAsia Airways ATR mistakenly switched off the plane’s only working engine seconds before it crashed in February, killing 43 people, Taiwan’s Aviation Safety Council (ASC) said in its latest report on Thursday. The ASC’s report also showed that Captain Liao Jian-zong, who was at the controls, had failed simulator training in May 2014, in part because he had insufficient knowledge of how to deal with an engine flame-out on take-off
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