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"Greece is bust, essentially."
Gabriel Stein, an economist with Lombard Street Research in London, speaking in April about the likelihood that Greece would default on its sovereign debt; Greece named a new Prime Minister in November as it finalized a $177 billion debt deal to avoid complete government collapse (BBC)