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It?s so hard to devalue Giorgos Samaras? stellar work along Greece?s left side and later in the center. Still, it just feels so wrong not to bequeath MoM honors to the man who pounced with such menace and scored such a grand and historic goal, as Giorgos Karagounis did. Besides, Karagounis? 120th cap tonight equaled Theodoros Zagorakis?s national record, so it really was a memorable night in Warsaw for the veteran Greek frontrunner.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Dozens of Polish police wearing full riot gear kept a close watch on Russian soccer fans heading to their country's European Championship game against Greece on Saturday.
Around 20,000 Russians were expected to attend the match in Warsaw, and authorities have been worried about the potential for more trouble after disturbances between Polish and Russian hooligans on Tuesday led to a few dozen injuries and more than 200 arrests.
As Saturday's game approached, thousands of Russians poured across a bridge to the National Stadium. There were no immediate reports of violence, and the atmosphere appeared to be calm and good-natured. Noisy groups of fans, some wrapped in Russian flags, chanted "We have come to win" and "Russia can only win." One Russian had a photo taken with a riot officer and shook his hand.
Russian fans also waved to Polish supporters going in the opposite direction to a fan zone in downtown Warsaw, in contrast to tensions and scattered outbreaks of violence Tuesday. Earlier Saturday, reports from border crossings said fewer Russian fans were coming than expected and that the mood was friendly.
Tuesday's fighting came as thousands of Russians marched over the bridge to the stadium for the highly charged Poland-Russia game that later ended in a 1-1 tie. It came on the Russia Day holiday and the Russians marched in a group, waving flags and nationalist symbols. The mass expression of Russian patriotism in Warsaw's capital was provocative to some Poles, who still deeply resent Moscow's imposition of communism here during the Cold War.
One of the worst cases of violence involved police firing rubber bullets and tear gas at young Polish men who attacked them with stones and bottles. Another scuffle near the stadium was apparently started by Russians.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) -Giorgos Karagounis put Greece into the European Championship quarterfinals Saturday, scoring just before halftime to give the 2004 European champions a 1-0 victory over Russia.
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WASHINGTON?? Attorney General Eric Holder is proposing to meet with Rep. Darrell Issa by Monday to settle a dispute over Justice Department documents the congressman is demanding on a flawed gun-smuggling probe.
Holder said Thursday the department is prepared to turn over documents detailing how Justice Department officials came to the realization that federal agents in Arizona had used a controversial investigative tactic that resulted in hundreds of illicitly purchased guns winding up in Mexico, many at crime scenes.
In a letter to Issa, Holder said the information he is prepared to provide will fully address concerns of the congressman and House Republican leaders. Issa, R-Calif., has scheduled a committee vote for Wednesday on a contempt citation against Holder for failing to turn over relevant documents on the operation.
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FILE - In this June 15, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its fiscal mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it. Yet as he prepares to plunge into summit talks with the other world leaders, Obama is down to the power of persuasion and little else. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
FILE - In this June 15, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its fiscal mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it. Yet as he prepares to plunge into summit talks with the other world leaders, Obama is down to the power of persuasion and little else. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
FILE - In this July 7, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow. With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its fiscal mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it. Yet as he prepares to plunge into summit talks with the other world leaders, Obama is down to the power of persuasion and little else. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
Greek men check lists with polling stations one day before general elections, in central Athens, on Saturday, June 16, 2012. Greeks cast their ballots this Sunday for the second time in six weeks, after May 6 elections left no party with enough seats in Parliament to form a government and coalition talks collapsed.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel gesticulates during her speech at the regional conference of her conservative party, in Darmstadt, central Germany, Saturday, June 16, 2012. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday she hopes Greeks will elect a new government that stands by the country's promises to international creditors, insisting that Europeans have to stop making commitments which they then ignore. Greeks vote Sunday for the second time in six weeks amid fears the country could be forced out of the euro if they reject strict austerity measures and structural reforms demanded in return for rescue loans by other European countries and the International Monetary Fund. Germany, Europe's biggest economy, has been a key advocate of that approach. (AP Photo/Mario Vedder)
Maria, 61, a street vendor of corn-on-the-cob (surname not given) pushes her cart in front of election posters of radical left party (SYRIZA) one day before general elections in Athens, Saturday, June 16, 2012. Greeks vote for the second time in six weeks Sunday amid fears that the country could be forced out of the euro if they reject the strict austerity measures taken in return for billions of euros in rescue loans from other European countries and the International Monetary Fund. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
CHICAGO (AP) ? With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its financial mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it.
Yet as he prepares for summit talks beginning Monday in Mexico with the other world leaders, Obama is down to the power of persuasion and little else.
A looming, perilous Greek election and Europe's internal politics are controlling the debate.
Given the teetering global economy and the breadth of leaders about to gather in the coastal resort of Los Cabos, the Group of 20 summit meeting carries the weight of expectations it is not likely to meet. Most of its members are not part of Europe and they have no power to drive how the continent manages its crisis, although do they come looking for signs of progress and urgency.
That clearly is the case for Obama, locked in a tight election that may be decided singlehandedly by whether U.S. job growth sinks or climbs over the next five months.
While economic challenge will dominate the summit, the agenda runs deeper.
In talks on the sidelines, Obama will confront the bloodshed in Syria and the nuclear threat in Iran. He will meet with Vladimir Putin, who has returned to the presidency of Russia. Their talks will be scrutinized, given tense U.S.-Russian political relations and deep divisions over Syria.
Obama was to head to Mexico on Sunday night after a weekend with his family in their hometown of Chicago. The summit runs Monday and Tuesday.
Europe's entangled financial crisis, from debt woes in Greece to banking trouble in Spain and high unemployment all around, has become the single biggest threat to the U.S. economic recovery. The signs of worry are clear at the White House and in the words of Obama, who can draw a straight line from the fate of Europe's economic strength to his chances of a second term.
Obama is prodding European leaders to give world markets some confidence, and fast.
"Obviously, this matters to us because Europe is our largest economic trading partner," Obama said. "If there's less demand for our products in places like Paris or Madrid, it could mean less business for manufacturers in places like Pittsburgh or Milwaukee. The good news is there is a path out of this challenge. These decisions are fundamentally in the hands of Europe's leaders."
He wants to emerge from Mexico with signs that the European players at the table, led by Germany, are moving on their own agenda. That means pursuing a banking union to match the monetary union linking the eurozone, taking steps to keep borrowing costs down in the weakest nations and injecting life into economies with growth plans involving public money.
Or in short, as Treasury Undersecretary Lael Brainard put it, the focus in Mexico will be "ensuring our European partners are escalating their response" to stabilizing a dicey situation.
"The stakes are high for all of us," she said.
The agenda threatens to be upended by the outcome of Sunday's election in Greece.
In choosing a new government for their debt-drowning nation, Greek voters are deciding whether to stick with the deeply unpopular austerity terms of an international bailout package or reject them. If they do the latter, that could lead Greece to default and get booted out of the eurozone, which could cause panic and destabilize the world's financial system.
Here, too, Obama has tried to hold sway from abroad.
"It is in everybody's interest for Greece to remain in the eurozone while respecting its commitment to reform," he said. "We recognize the sacrifices that the Greek people have made. ... But the Greek people also need to recognize that their hardships will likely be worse if they choose to exit from the eurozone."
Of the G-20 collection of emerging and economic giants, only Germany, Italy and France are in the 17-nation eurozone at the center of the crisis. European leaders point to a different summit of their own, to be held in Brussels at the end of June, as the more appropriate time to watch for action on a crisis response plan.
Given that dynamic, Obama officials have worked to keep expectations in check.
"Los Cabos will not be the final word on the eurozone," said Mike Froman, deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs.
Even beyond Europe, from Asia to the Americas, the economy is softening and fears are soaring.
The G-20 is meant to serve as the premier voice of economic coordination, representing not just traditional powers but emerging economies. Its members are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union.
Obama's advisers do see the G-20 as a chance for the European nations to add some definition to their plans and show how they will put aside sovereign concerns to avoid calamity.
That pressure can help, said Matthew Goodman, who formerly oversaw the G-20 planning for Obama as director of international economics on the National Security Council staff.
"If you have to go into a meeting with peers and explain yourself, it gives the Europeans some ammunition when they have to try to sell these changes domestically," said Goodman, a specialist in political economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "They can say, 'This is what the world expects.'"
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In light of the rising costs of college tuition around the country, coupled with the staggering amount of debt students have accumulated, studies are being done to examine a possible causal connection between expanding federal aid programs and tuition hikes.
By Diane Lim Rogers,?Guest blogger / June 13, 2012
Enlarge?A:? When loans to purchase it are subsidized, the price of it goes up!
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I?m fascinated by this story that appeared in the Wall Street Journal this week (by Josh Mitchell), with the subtitle ?As Student Debt Grows, Possible Link Seen Between Federal Aid and Rising Tuition.?? The article explains the link this way:
Rising student debt levels and fresh academic research have brought greater scrutiny to the question of whether the federal government?s expanding student-aid programs are driving up college tuition.
Studies of the relationship between increasing aid and climbing prices at nonprofit four-year colleges found mixed results, ranging from no link to a strong causal connection. But fresh academic research supports the idea that student aid in the form of grants leads to higher prices at for-profit schools, a small segment of postsecondary education.
The new evidence?? Continuing into the WSJ story, my emphasis added:
The new study found that tuition at for-profit schools where students receive federal aid was 75% higher than at comparable for-profit schools whose students don?t receive any aid. Aid-eligible institutions need to be accredited by the Education Department, licensed by the state and meet other standards such as a maximum rate of default by students on federal loans.
The tuition difference was roughly equal to the average $3,390 a year in federal grants that students in the first group received, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by Claudia Goldin of Harvard University and Stephanie Riegg Cellini of George Washington University?
The authors said their findings lent ?credence to the?hypothesis that aid-eligible institutions raise tuition to maximize aid.?
I see two main problems with that bottom-line conclusion/suggestion?with the strong caveat that I have not read the actual NBER working paper but only this WSJ story on it (and would love to hear your comments, especially if any of you have read the academic paper).
First, it?s tough to do the ?all else constant? experiment here, given that ?aid-eligible institutions need to be accredited.? That means being aid-eligible is strongly correlated with whatever qualities make the schools qualify for accreditation.? The Education Department?s website explains how accreditation is done:
The goal of accreditation is to ensure that education provided by institutions of higher education meets acceptable levels of quality. Accrediting agencies, which are private educational associations of regional or national scope, develop evaluation criteria and conduct peer evaluations to assess whether or not those criteria are met. Institutions and/or programs that request an agency?s evaluation and that meet an agency?s criteria are then ?accredited? by that agency.
In other words, how ?comparable? can two for-profit schools really be with each other, if one (the one providing aid) qualifies as accredited and the other (the one without aid) not?? The way prices work in most markets (for all kinds of goods and services), is that higher quality goods and services command higher demand and hence higher prices.? Take houses, for example.? You could compare two houses that are alike in many measurable attributes?square footage, lot size, school district, age, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, etc?and yet there would be many unmeasured attributes (and some unmeasurable qualities) that might explain why one house sells for a much higher price than the other.? In the case of college tuition, whatever variables the researchers controlled for in terms of ?comparability,? we know they couldn?t control for the underlying factors that determined accreditation of the schools?because any of those factors were indistinguishable (inseparable) from the characteristic of whether the school was aid-eligible or not.? I suspect that if we were shown any pair of ?comparable? schools in this experiment, we would conclude the aid-eligible school was of obviously higher quality than the aid-ineligible school (it was obvious to the accrediting agency, after all), and that that difference in quality was a reasonable enough reason why the higher quality school charged higher tuition.? So theoretically, the aid doesn?t have to have anything to do with what causes the higher price, and it might be that the only reason why higher prices seem correlated with greater aid is because higher quality is correlated with higher prices.
Second, even if the subsidized loans do have at least something to do with higher tuition and fees, this is just due to the forces of supply and demand?not the ulterior motives of rent-seeking colleges. The WSJ article about the NBER paper suggests that the empirical research provides evidence that colleges take advantage of their aid eligibility to set higher tuition prices, and/or manipulate their tuition charges to increase their aid eligibility.? But I suspect the hard-to-measure true story doesn?t contain quite so much willful drama on the part of the actor playing the college.? Instead, the causation probably runs this way:? subsidized loans lower the out-of-pocket costs of college to students, the lower price increases demand (shifts out the demand curve), and higher demand means a higher market price.? (Microeconomics students learn that the government subsidy acts like a ?wedge? between the price received by the seller (the college)?now higher?and the price paid by the consumer (the student)?now lower.)? The higher price received by colleges after the subsidized aid is? not because the suppliers just on their own decide to claim most or all of the benefits of the subsidy by simply setting the price of tuition to reflect a full (or otherwise whimsically-decided) mark-up.
So more subsidized loans means greater demand for the college educations those loans buy, and along with all the other reasons why demand for college is increasing (like, no one can get a job now anyway, but especially not those without college degrees), this raises the market price of college, and, yes, the profits of those for-profit institutions of higher education fortunate enough to be deemed good enough for (simultaneously) accreditation and government-subsidized aid.
So this reminds me of how the government subsidizes home mortgages, via the mortgage interest deduction.? (Actually, technically, it?s from the combination of the non-taxation of the imputed rental services from owner-occupied housing and the mortgage interest deduction.)? Economists universally understand that the mortgage interest deduction raises the price of owner-occupied housing, because the value of the mortgage interest subsidy gets capitalized into the price of houses everywhere?even the prices of houses that are not literally purchased by people who take out mortgages and live in them as owner occupiers.? The point is that many players in the market for housing will qualify for the subsidy, and market prices will reflect how much of the market is made up of those people.? On the issue of the mortgage interest deduction, economists often worry about what the economic effects of that subsidy are, and whether policymakers really intended for those effects.? We can say that homeownership is a good thing, and we can hope that this subsidy to homeownership actually increases homeownership.? But it is a subsidy not to homeownership per se, but to the costs of borrowing to purchase a home?and the larger and/or more expensive the house (and the bigger the loan), the bigger the value of the subsidy.? (And on top of that, the higher ones income, the bigger the subsidy?because the subsidy is run through a tax deduction that makes the subsidy an ?upside down? one, with larger percentage subsidies given to people in higher income tax brackets.)? Economists have found evidence that the mortgage interest deduction definitely raises housing prices, but not as much evidence that the subsidy increases homeownership as much as encourages people to buy more expensive houses with larger mortgages.? (For microeconomics students out there, both the income and the substitution effects work in those directions.)? And then we get to the public policy concern:? is that government subsidy worth its cost?? What is the goal of the policy?? If there are social benefits to homeownership, are there even bigger social benefits when people buy bigger houses (even if by going into bigger personal debt)?
Now come back to the student loan story.? College is like owner-occupied housing in that if you subsidize the costs of borrowing for college, you will raise the market price of a college education?just like the mortgage interest deduction raises the market price of a house.? Further, you might hope that what you?re doing with the subsidy is making it possible for kids to go to college who otherwise wouldn?t be able to afford it.? That might be partly the case, just like there are surely some households at the cusp of the owning-vs-renting decision for which the mortgage interest deduction is the marginal factor that makes owning the winner.? But just like the mortgage interest deduction goes to a lot of people who would own homes anyway and might just opt for the more expensive home made possible by a bigger mortgage, subsidized student loans go to a lot of students who would have gone to college anyway but may now opt to go to more expensive colleges made possible by larger (but subsidized) student loans.? And some of us might wonder if that policy effect is worth the cost, because government-subsidized educational aid costs real money (it increases government spending and increases our public debt), just like government-subsidized mortgages do.? Do all of us really want to be partially paying for kids (not even our own) to go to expensive colleges?
By the way, I speak about this effect of subsidized aid on the demand for expensive colleges, not just conceptually, but from personal experience.? I have two daughters in college, one at Princeton and the other at Sarah Lawrence.? If you google their costs, you will see they certainly both qualify as ?expensive.?? But a combination of need-based grant aid and subsidized loans have way narrowed the difference between the net cost to send my daughters to those schools and what the costs of sending them to the in-state (Virginia) public universities would be.? They would not be attending those schools were it not for the availability of such aid, but without that aid, they would have still gone to college?just to a cheaper (in-state) one.
Based on just my personal experience (thus far), I think that more expensive colleges tend to be worth their higher costs.? Certainly they must be worth their higher costs if they continue to attract students, and I know many students go to these expensive colleges without any subsidized aid?because they can afford it and decide it is worth spending their own money that way over other ways.? More expensive homes are worth their prices, too, given that (or to the extent that) there are people who demand such expensive homes.? The public policy question about whether we want to be subsidizing expensive homes, however, seems a more damning criticism than asking the same question about subsidized college aid, because there?s probably more value added?to society, broadly?in encouraging higher-quality educations that happen to come with higher prices, than in encouraging higher-priced homes that are made possible with larger mortgages.? If the bigger, more important, public policy goal regarding higher education is to make it possible for more students to attend any college, however, then the government?s subsidized student loan policy might score poorly compared with an alternative policy of increasing need-based grants?in the same way that the mortgage interest deduction scores poorly compared with alternative policies that subsidize affordable housing if the goal is to increase homeownership.
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