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Group of 7 meet to discuss Greek debt crisis

Kai Ryssdal Sep 9, 2011

An observation that the financial history of the past three years is that crises like to arrive on weekends.

There was much speculation today that a resolution to the Greek debt crisis maybe closer than anyone thought. And not in a good way. Group of 7 finance ministers are meeting in Marseilles this weekend to talk about it. So there’s that — although Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said there’s only so much other countries can do.

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