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Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis speaks with members of the International Monetary Fund, before the IMF Governors group photo, at the World Bank-International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Washington, Saturday, April 18, 2015. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Yanis Varoufakis, Greece finance minister, resigns after decisive ‘no’ bailout vote

By Elena Becatoros and Demetris Nellas - Associated Press

Demonstrators shout slogans during a rally organized by supporters of the Yes vote in Athens, Friday, July 3, 2015. A new opinion poll shows a dead heat in Greece's referendum campaign with just two days to go before Sunday's vote on whether Greeks should accept more austerity in return for bailout loans. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Greeks reject austerity measures in referendum

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

STEPHEN MOORE: Let Greece go bankrupt, rebuild economy like Detroit

By Stephen Moore

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L. TODD WOOD: Bondzilla: He’s tired of waiting

By L. Todd Wood

Riot police throw a tear gas canister as demonstrators run to avoid it before a rally organized by supporters of the No vote in Athens, Friday, July 3, 2015. Greeks will vote Sunday on whether to accept a proposal that creditors had made of specific reforms in exchange for loans. European Union institutions are framing it as a vote for or against the euro. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek police, youths clash before Athens rally on bailout referendum

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Members of left wing parties hold placards reading in Greek ''NO'' next to a Presidential Guard, Evzonas, during a protest outside the Greek Parliament in Athens, Sunday, June 28, 2015. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says the Bank of Greece has recommended that banks remain closed and restrictions be imposed on transactions, after the European Central Bank didn't increase the amount of emergency liquidity the lenders can access from the central bank. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

PETER MORICI: The Greeks should vote “no!”

By Peter Morici

Anxious Greeks lined up at ATMs on Monday as they gradually began dispensing cash again on the first day of capital controls imposed in a dramatic twist in Greece's financial saga. Banks will remain shut until next Monday, and a daily limit of $67 has been placed on cash withdrawals from ATMs. (Associated Press)

Greece makes concession but no deal seen before Sunday vote

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

President Obama at the White House. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Obama: Greek crisis not a major concern to U.S.

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration on coming economic breakdowns by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

RICHARD RAHN: How many more Greek tragedies?

By Richard W. Rahn

Anxious Greeks lined up at ATMs on Monday as they gradually began dispensing cash again on the first day of capital controls imposed in a dramatic twist in Greece's financial saga. Banks will remain shut until next Monday, and a daily limit of $67 has been placed on cash withdrawals from ATMs. (Associated Press)

Obama stumped as Puerto Rico, Greece debt crises roil global markets

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Elderly people, who usually get their pensions at the end of the month, wait outside a closed bank in Athens, Monday, June 29, 2015. Greece's five-year financial crisis took its most dramatic turn yet, with the cabinet deciding that Greek banks would remain shut for six business days and restrictions would be imposed on cash withdrawals. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

L. TODD WOOD: How the University of Texas helped destroy lives of 11M

By L. Todd Wood

Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla delivers his budget address for the next fiscal year at the Capitol building in San Juan, Thursday, April 30, 2015. Legislators struck down a key part of a plan to overhaul the island's tax system early Thursday, raising concerns about the U.S. territory's economic future and its ability to pay off a heavy public debt. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

Alejandro Garcia Padilla, Puerto Rico governor, says island can’t pay its $72 billion public debt

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

A couple passes by the ATM machines used by people in Monastiraki in Athens, early Monday, June 29, 2015. Greece's five-year financial crisis took its most dramatic turn to date Sunday, with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announcing Greek banks would remain shut indefinitely and restrictions would be imposed on cash withdrawals. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Pensioners in Greece queue outside banks on 1st day of capital control

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras speaks with visiting Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday, June 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis) ** FILE **

Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s prime minister, puts bailout deal to referendum July 5

By Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Thursday, June 18, 2015 a stencil work by an artist who uses the name Wild Drawing shows a fake road sign with a little car in the blue and white Greek colours tumbling off a crumbling euro currency sign into the water. It’s called “Keep Away.” Over the past five years of Greece’s economic depression, more and more paintings comment on the country’s financial and social woes. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

PETER MORICI: The sooner Greece defaults and dumps the Euro the better

By Peter Morici

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras speaks with visiting Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday, June 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis) ** FILE **

Europe cautiously optimistic of Greek debt deal this week

By Lorne Cook and Raf Casert - Associated Press

An army contingent carry a Greek flag in front of the temple of the Parthenon before a hoisting ceremony at the Acropolis hill in Athens, Greece Thursday, June 18, 2015. Greece and its creditors publicly blamed one another for an impasse in bailout talks, on the eve of a eurozone finance ministers' meeting billed as key to their outcome. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Europe scrambles to pick up pieces of Greek talks failure

By Pan Pylas and Lorne Cook - Associated Press

The Greek flag flies at the top of the Athens Academy building, in Athens, Thursday, June 4, 2015 .Greece remains at loggerheads with creditors over key economic reforms after a meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the head of the European Union's executive arm failed to yield a breakthrough on the release of vital bailout loans. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

EDITORIAL: Greek bailout saga continues

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrives for a meeting at the Education Ministry in Athens, Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Tsipras says Greece has submitted a proposal for an agreement with its creditors, as Athens seeks a deal that will to unlock desperately needed rescue money. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Alexis Tsipras, Greek prime minister, heads to Brussels to defend bailout proposal

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press