Greek Depositors Withdrew $898 Million From Banks Monday — WSJ
Greece on brink of collapse — The Telegraph
Greece’s Bank Jog Turns Into A Run: Is Viral Panic Next? — Walter Russell Mead.
If the fat lady is about to sing, which of these two tunes is she likely to warble?
Choice 1: Greece exits the Eurozone
And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I’ll say it clear,
I’ll state my case, of which I’m certain.
Choice 2: Germany rides to the rescue
Let me try again; let me try again.
Think of all we had before,
Let me try once more.
We can have it all, you and I again.
Just forgive me or I’ll die.
Please let me try again.
But be mindful of the danger lurking in these melodies. Once these tunes are sung, anything can happen.
The “My Way” killings are a social phenomenon in the Philippines, where the killing of karaoke singers who get into disputes about their renditions of Frank Sinatra’s signature tune, “My Way”, has led some bars to ban the song and other singers to abstain from singing it …
“Karaoke rage” is not just limited to “My Way” in the Philippines. “There have been several reported cases of singers being assaulted, shot or stabbed mid-performance, usually over how songs are sung,” according to a 2008 report in Britain’s Guardian newspaper. In Malaysia in 2008, a man at a coffee shop hogged the karaoke microphone so long he was stabbed to death by other patrons. In Thailand, a man was arrested on charges that he shot to death eight neighbors, one of whom was his brother-in-law, in a dispute stemming from several karaoke offerings, including repeated renditions of John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads”
Open thread.
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