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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Time to split the euro in two

The topic of what should happen with Greece has percolated in Europe for years. Around dining room tables and in sidewalk cafes across the continent, discussions about the Greek crisis somehow always find their way to the matter of pensions. The Greeks, I've heard countless times, retire too early. They have not worked hard enough, they have spent carelessly and have not paid enough taxes. That, the reasoning goes, is why they find themselves in such a fix now.


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