Lastly, add to this recipe for disaster, the U.S.' inability to balance our finances, relying instead on an ever-growing need of borrowing from other countries. Four years in office and still Mr.

WASHINGTON -- So, is Greece the next Lehman? No. It isn't even big enough to cause global financial markets to freeze up the way they did in 2008. Whatever caused that brief 1,000-point swoon in the ...

ATHENS, GREECE — Evgenia Papadopoulou runs a Pilates studio in downtown Athens, and over the past three years she has cut her staff from seven to three. Business is down 40 percent, while her studio's ...

"After fighting the Germans in World War II, the Greeks were caught up in an even more savage civil war. "Though the communists initially lost, in early 1967 they were sending mobs into the street to ...

As a follow-up to my column today regarding the Greek economy and the country’s higher education woes, here’s the link to the Bloomberg article that I referenced. An area that I wasn’t able to touch ...

AFTER almost eight years under European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout programmes, there is reason for optimism in Athens. At the end of last month, Greek legislators ...

I was passing by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington the other afternoon when the raking winter sun made the patterned, bronzed-aluminum facade glow ...

It shouldn’t escape anyone’s notice that while discussions of the Greek crisis employ the vocabulary of economics--debt, default and deficits are the defining terms--the real concerns expressed by ...

In the end, everything ran out: time, money, patience, luck, generosity — and the Greek finance minister. Yanis Varoufakis' early departure from the week's fourth Eurogroup meeting, hotfooting it back ...