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Dayen’s news roundup from Tuesday, February 21, noting stories about the Greek settlement and its pain, the AG-bank settlement and its holes and carve outs, the Supreme Court, unemployment, contraception, Virginia’s vaginal saga, marriage equality, and much more.

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After an all-night round of talks among Eurozone finance ministers, Greece was granted its second bailout, this one for €130 billion, in a package that includes recently passed austerity measures and a debt restructuring. But confidential reports distributed to the finance ministers indicate that the deal will not work and may even be counter-productive.

Dayen’s news roundup from President’s Day with links to stories about GOP caucuses, Michigan and Romney, Greek agony, Syria, McCain, Paul Babeu, Juan Cole and oil prices, Modern Monetary Theory and much more.

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This a.m. Atrios highlights an op ed at the Financial Times by Wolfgang Münchau pointing out that Greece now faces the bitter choice of defaulting if it wants to preserve any pretense of democracy and national sovereignty. That follows a week or more of intimidating and insulting comments by German financial minister Wolfgang Schäuble and others

I don’t know how many Eurozone finance meetings have been seen as consequential, but we’ve got another one today, with the Greek bailout as the main topic. Greek leaders hope that the finance ministers will approve the bailout, after they gave final assent to austerity measures. CNBC quotes officials saying the chances are “little higher than 50-50.” What we learned going into the meeting is more evidence that the ordered cure for Greece’s ills, austerity, is causing the disease:

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