A Greek deal is looking more and more unlikely. The Greeks simply do not want to accept austerity as defined by core players in the monetary union, France and Germany. Even the very next meeting is in doubt because of Greek recalcitrance.

A Greek deal is looking more and more unlikely. The Greeks simply do not want to accept austerity as defined by core players in the monetary union, France and Germany. Even the very next meeting is in doubt because of Greek recalcitrance.

Purportedly, Diogenes, a 4th century Greek philosopher of the Cynic school, went about Athens in the daytime with a lighted lamp looking for an honest man.