“Three years into a crippling recession that has reduced incomes here by as much as 60 percent, increased the number of suicides by 40 percent and forced 1.3 million people onto growing unemployment lines, Greeks are grappling with ways to remain sane. Many of them are turning to what some call a free cure to just about any ailment: laughter. In one improvised routine, members are taught to laugh at the sight of an electricity bill or the kind of tax notice that Greeks have been repeatedly served in recent years as part of new austerity measures intended to make up for decades of profligate spending by the state.”
Related posts:
Venezuela inflation soars to record monthly high 6.1%; 35% annualized
Dead Gitmo detainee was cleared for release in 2009
Virtual currencies being undermined by rising criminality: McAfee firm
Ex-Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta fined $13.9 million for insider trading
Air Force guards at top-secret US nuclear missile base were actually a LSD ring
Barclays fined $44 million over gold price fixing
IMF tells regulators to brace for global 'liquidity shock'
French special forces ‘to protect’ Niger uranium mines
Report: Half of Syrian rebels are hardline jihadists or Al-Qaeda operatives
CIA helping boost arms shipments to Syria rebels
Shock rockers Insane Clown Posse to sue FBI
A radical dream for making techno utopias a reality
Federal court upholds California ban on foie gras sales
U.S.-backed rebels blow up U.S. Humvee with U.S.-supplied missiles
Watching you: When and where you may be tracked