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“Today is normally a day of joyful celebration in Greece, remembering the push for independence from Turkey in 1821, with military parades and a public holiday.

Except that many are eyeing the plight of their Cypriot cousins who have just had to bite the financial bullet, and wondering if after a long recession worse is yet to come for them.

“If you can’t trust a bank with your money, then what do you do? You don’t put it somewhere where someone could grab it to help bail out the country…” Here is a direct video report link.

Some positive momentum in US housing data today which is welcome news, but Robert Shiller, co-founder of the Case-Shiller Index, shares his concerns about the housing recovery. Here is a direct video link.

A worthwhile discussion on Charlie Rose last night about legal equality issues and same-sex marriage before the US Supreme Court this week. Guests were Andrew Sullivan, author and editor of The Dish Blog, Jeffrey Tobin, of CNN and the New Yorker Magazine and Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor at Yale Law School. Here is a direct video link.