Six Charts Show Six Months of Economic Unraveling for Greece
Is a Tsipras, Merkel Meeting Greece’s Last Hope?
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Greece was in the early stage of an economic recovery when then-Prime Minister Antonis Samaras called a vote for a new president. The unraveling that followed shows just how fragile that recovery was.
Investors were the first to run for the hills, anticipating that the political stand-off would end in elections that would usher in Alexis Tsipras's anti-austerity Syriza party, and a confrontation with the country's bailout creditors.