The Greek debt crisis, largely ignored in the United States, is about to go viral. The government of  Prime Minister Alex Tsipras just rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic by reshuffling his team that is negotiating with the European Union to release more than $7 billion in aid.  The money is tied up because Greece is refusing to stick with its deal to reform its finances and cut its massive welfare state.  The role of the confrontational and delusional leftist finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has been downsized.  The day-to-day negotiations will now be headed up by Deputy Foreign Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, while the hapless Varoufakis will be limited to political negotiations with EU member-states. Varoufakis's sneering statements about Germany and Chancellor Merkel, as well as his insistence that the EU recognize that the Greek far-left party that took power recently, Syriza, can't go back to responsible spending by government...(Read Full Post)