The Euro Crisis: Why Greece’s Election Doesn’t Matter

Wed, 06/20/2012 - 04:00 EDT - The Curious Capitalist

Sunday’s national election was supposed to be a major turning point for the future of the euro. The fear in financial markets was that a government led by a party with a radical approach to the country’s three-year debt crisis would take power, or that no stable coalition would form at all, setting in motion [...]

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