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Stock market fever has taken hold in Greece. In Athens, taxi drivers and waiters are at the ready with their tips for the best stocks to buy - a classic sign of an overheated market. Almost everyone in Greece seems to have a view on the market these days.
In villages where old men used to sit drinking coffee all day, exchanging farming advice and scandal, they now frequent only cafes and bars with screens and all they talk about is the market. Then there is the island trader - a 20-something male who spends most of his days phoning his broker from the beach.
Even the clergy has the bug. A financial journalist recalls visiting a priest to discuss his forthcoming wedding and being showered with questions, not about the serious vows he would be taking,...
