Greece General Discussion

[Tender Branson]

Well, I predict ND will win again. They have been gaining steadily and when it comes down to the wire a lot of people will be scared. But it will be fun to watch for us outsiders.

Well, don't take greek polls at face value. SYRIZA will win handily this time but will fall short of a majority of seats.

In Austria, voters like to punish the party that calls/was responsible for snap elections.

In this case, SYRIZA (and some others) are virtually the ones who made the new election happen.

Are Greek voters different on this issue ? Lifting the party that called for snap elections to an election win ?

[Tender Branson]

Greece's economy has surprisingly grown quite strongly in Q2, with a +0.8% growth Q/Q and +1.4% Y/Y.

The Q1 figures were revised up from -0.2% to 0.0% ...

Tourism was a huge boost, because Greece has record tourism right now.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33908034

Compared with the first half of 2014, GDP is up by 1% this year so far.

Economists actually predicted a fall of 2% for this year ...