Investors suspect that, like Greece, Spain is trapped in a spiral of decline with 25% unemployed.
Seems like a nice wad of cash given the McCourts were leveraged like Greece.
The idea is to compete with island ferryboats in places like Greece and the Bahamas.
Like Greece, Spain is now teetering and could need more ECB cash to meet credit obligations.
They're not asking for a holiday on interest payments or even an interest-rate reduction like Greece.
Like Greece in the euro zone, Stockton represents a difference of degree, not of kind.
You know, like Greece, Spain and Portugal have all managed to do.
Germany, in the past, has questioned the burden placed on thriving nations by weak states like Greece.
Countries like Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain may well find themselves locked in a cycle of decline.
In the worst case scenario, the new levy could cause a run on banks in countries like Greece.
Countries like Greece, for which government spending accounts for 50% or more of GDP, have an analogous problem.
The worry for European policymakers is that output is declining beyond weaker, debt-laden economies like Greece and Spain.
The EU cannot call for spending cuts in places like Greece and Spain whilst exempting itself, they argue.
The crisis started when the criteria for joining a single currency were fudged, allowing in countries like Greece.
And then understand why all this talk of "We could be like Greece" so radically misses the point.
Cyprus, like Greece and Spain beforehand, creates an existential crisis for the euro.
The gap is wide enough for a country like Greece to fall through.
In which case Portugal, like Greece, will be back in the emergency ward.
Ireland shows no recovery from its 2009 low, its profile like Greece, off 80 percent from the 2007 high.
Concern has grown of an unfair burden placed on larger economies by the problems of smaller economies like Greece.
Like Greece, Italy has found it hard to live with the single currency.
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Whether or not Spain is like Greece, a Greek exit and contagion could shut off any hopes of economic stability.
If debtor countries like Greece or Spain default, that just means they are richer and creditors like Germany are poorer.
Peripheral bond yields remain almost prohibitively high while austerity in several nations like Greece and Italy could exacerbate debt-to-GDP ratios.
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Countries with the most severe debt issues like Greece, Portugal, Ireland, and Italy have already taken drastic short-term and long-term measures.
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But the bailouts of countries like Greece, Ireland and Portugal started in 2010, when German stocks had a pretty good year.
Trouble in even a peripheral country like Greece, whose GDP is less than a tenth of Germany's, posed dangers to all.
Quite simply, countries like Greece, Spain and Italy have always found themselves too dependent on foreign resources to meet their energy needs.
Now, if the Telegraph is correct, the Eurozone as a whole is planning to repeat the mistake, and become just like Greece.
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"Certainly a 4 star in somewhere like Greece or Turkey I reckon would only be a 3 star in Spain, " says Simon.
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