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This article talks about the scarcity of jobs for citizens living in Greece. Greek citizens are not having much luck finding any occupations, even simple ones such as working as a waiter in a restaurant or working in a supermarket. This is mostly a dilemma for the Greek youth, furthermore, data shows that more than half of the citizens under the age of 25 are out of work. The greatest challenge for employers is not a lack of cheap labor but a shortage of demand for their products, therefore, due to the fact that their products aren't selling they can't hire people because their company will be going into debt.

This article is about the fluctuation of the bitcoin. A bitcoin is a distributed peer-to-peer digital currency that functions without the intermediation of any central authority, which was created in 2008 to prevent double spending. The bitcoins raised an enormous amount in the last four years. A man by the name of Kristofer Kroch invested about 27$ in 5000 bitcoins in 2009, that in today's rate measure up to 886000$.