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A comment on Greece.

Re:Greece by AndrewKemendo on Saturday July 04, 2015 @07:38PM (#9831939)
The TROIKA GDP Forecast graph is great! I think from now on I am going to send it to any investor who thinks asking pre-revenue companies for projections is a reasonable thing.
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Re:Greece by drxzcl on Sunday July 05, 2015 @05:01AM (#9832982)
I had a good chuckle at that. It instantly reminded me of the Itanium sales forecasts[1]. It's like people are afraid to say "I don't know" (especially when money is involved) and just end up telling people what they want to hear.

1: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Itanium_Sales_Fore...

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Re:Greece by telepheron on Saturday July 04, 2015 @08:04PM (#9832014)
Especially since it was largely caused by the failure of the Greek government to implement the required changes.

Also the slow recovery in 2013 and 2014 was 'accidentally' left out.

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