Greece Is in Depression; Animal Spirit Is Negative

Greece looks in the doldrums even after subtracting deflation

An elderly man walks through an empty street in central Thessaloniki, Greece.

Photographer: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg
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How to measure the "animal spirit" of Greece?

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