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Turkish Foreign Ministry offered a post to Daron Acemoglu as the country’s permanent representative to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). News...

Greece’s unemployment rate climbed for a sixth month in December, increasing more than economists estimated as it extended a record high. The unemployment rate rose...

Greece plans to sell its so-called Diaspora bonds worth up to $ 3bn to U.S. retail investors in the first half of the year,...

German economist Otmar Issing told Reuters that Greece will ultimately need some form of debt restructuring, but not now. "The question is about contagion effects....

Greece is in talks with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund on a debt restructuring package, according to The Financial Times. The scheme...

Most global investors predict that at least one nation will abandon the euro zone within five years and that Greece and Ireland will default,...

Reuters claims that Athens is not expected to ask for debt restructuring any time soon, according to an analysis. Greece will never be able to repay...

Reconstruction efforts in flood-stricken Queensland are expected to make it more difficult to recruit skilled labor for the Australian building industry.  This has caused industry...

Supreme Court Prosecutor Ioannis Tentes on Monday forwarded to Parliament, a law suit filed by an Austrian economist.  The lawsuit is against international bankers Goldman...

The German issue of The Financial Times noted that investors and financial markets expect Greek debt restructuring. Christian Kirchner stated in a Financial Times article:...