The US government was built on the model of ancient Greece: what stuck and what did not
The Acropolis of Athens is a powerful symbol in the history of democracy. However, many aspects of Greek democracy have not taken root in the modern world, writes MC Today. “What Athens was in miniature, America will embody on a full scale,” wrote Thomas Paine in 1792. It…
Germany offered the United States to exchange Greece for Puerto Rico
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble offered his US counterpart Jack Liu to exchange Greece for Puerto Rico, Bloomberg reports. Schäuble believes that the Americans could accept the Balkan state into the dollar zone, while the Caribbean island will go to the European Monetary Union. Lew, ...