This article is not specifically about Greece, but I think it gets to the heart of the problem. This is as much a political crisis as an economic one. The Greece sovereign debt crisis is likely to pass, but the underling flaws in the Eurozone paradigm nearly guarantee future discord.
Another article which might be useful. This is slightly different from the other usual Greek crisis articles and focus on the aftermath of drug price cuts as part of the austerity measures. Quite interesting and students can comment on exports policy and fiscal policy.
Many a time students ask about how we calculate the unemployment and why its it not possible to measure unemployment perfectly.
Well this news from BBC gives a dynamic chart to explain the level of unemployment in last 20 years in Britain.
Very help full to teach students about the challenges of calculating unemployment..
CIA fact book helps in providing reference for lesson plan. For the Development chapter I generally use various growth indicator from this book. An easy access to the reliable resources for comparative analysis.
Videos provide by AlJazeeraEnglish provides tonnes of knowledge with the help of live videos. My students enjoys these videos and give me chance to start debate or discussion among the students.
I use this web site to explain exchange rate in the international market. Its is very helpful to explain the flexible, freely floating exchange rate and managed excange rate among the trading nations around the world.
Charts are very lively and cover from one day to 10 years data.
I've used 60 second adventures in the past month with my students. The students like them, but I usually end up showing them about 3 times each because they struggle with the speed of the presentation. They move very quickly. (I personally loved them).
Cato institute is always interesting stuff. But in the US they tend to represent classical free market solutions to everything. Very much a libertarian agenda.