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Greek bonds tumbled, pushing the two-year yield up by the most since before the country adopted the euro, on concern the government will struggle to sell the debt it needs to fund the European union’s biggest deficit. via Greek Bonds Slide on Concern Investors May Shun New Debt Sales – Bloomberg.com.

Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher’s Weekly that “publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy” comes a sudden realization of a much larger threat to the viability of the book industry. Apparently, over 2 billion books were “loaned” last year by a cabal of organizationsContinue reading “Go To Hellman: Offline Book “Lending” Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion”

Vice President Joe Biden said at a Florida fundraiser Sunday that the 60-seat threshold for passing legislation in the Senate put a dangerous new roadblock in the way of American government. “As long as I have served, … I've never seen, as my uncle once said, the constitution stood on its head as they've done.Continue reading “VP: Constitution ‘on its head’ | POLITICO 44”