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Few players on Greece’s Wall Street today
In better days, during the 1990s, Greeks fell so completely in love with the stock market that ordinary people emptied their savings accounts into the local exchange. A shepherd once walked into a bookshop adjacent to the old Athens bourse and announced that he had sold his entire flock, and wanted to buy a manual with instructions about how to invest. Sofokleous Street, the local equivalent of Wall Street, had become a symbol of optimism about the global financial system. Now the decaying street has the opposite significance. Littered with garbage and graffiti, the road named after the great author of tragic dramas, ... (full story)