December 06, 2016
Give Greece Credit, Even Just for Treading Water
By Mark Gilbert
Bloomberg, December 6, 2016. All Rights Reserved.
Here are two things I'll bet most people don't know about Greece. The country's just-appointed minister of economy and development, Dimitri Papadimitriou, was lured away from his position as head of the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College in America. He's not a member of the ruling Syriza party. And the man appointed secretary general for public revenue in January is Giorgos Pitsillis, a professional tax lawyer. He's not a party member either….
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-06/greece-deserves-credit-for-its-reform-efforts