Quote of the day

“It is wrong to ask Greece to commit itself to an old programme that has demonstrably failed, been rejected by Greek voters, and which large numbers of economists (including ourselves) believe was misguided from the start.”

- “In the final hour, a plea for economic sanity and humanity,” an open letter from Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty, and other economists calling for the EU to work with Syriza on anti-austerity reforms