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Germany - a key contributor to any rescue package - is arguing with France and the European Central Bank over the extent to which private investors should buy new Greek bonds and share the risk burden.
BBC: Greece crisis: Is there a solution?
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Two days before the budget package passed, he had launched a last-minute personal bid to save Philipp Holzmann, a private German construction company, from bankruptcy and the loss of some 60, 000 jobs.
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But job creation was one of the key aims put forward in last year's state-of-the-union address, and yet, in spite of the 2001 tax cuts and the stimulus package put together a year ago, the economy has lost more than 180, 000 private-sector jobs in the past 12 months.
ECONOMIST: Working on the sceptics | The
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The trouble with both the banking package and the traditional pump-priming is that they fail to address the real problem: that the private sector is awash with debt.
ECONOMIST: Japanese bonds
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Those costs reflect a trend among private American universities--charge a stratospheric tuition fee, then offer a generous financial aid package.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Until a deal on private-sector losses is finalised and implemented, investors cannot rely on a second bail-out package that will keep Greece in the euro.
ECONOMIST: Greece and the euro