Drop it like it’s hot

People, I submit to you that this video perfectly captures the Greek crisis in 53 seconds!

The player is Greece and the stretcher-bearers are Angela Merkel and Christine Lagarde.

You’re welcome!

Illustrating the Greek crisis, one euro at a time

From the WSJ comes an interesting little article about Greek artist Stefanos, who is so overwhelmed and upset about the Greek crisis that he has taken to illustrating his feelings about the situation on Euro notes.  The results are really striking. Here are a couple:

 

The article reports that the British Museum in London has requested two of his pieces of art for “its permanent collection of money.”  I’m sure the Greek government would love to receive additions to its “(not so) permanent collection of money!”