Greek banks to close Monday

Greek ATM
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Greece will close its banks Monday following the European Central Bank's decision to freeze funding to the debt-saddled nation at its current level, The Wall Street Journal reports. As Greece's talks with creditors have collapsed this weekend, people have rushed to ATMs to withdraw their savings in case the nation defaults on its $1.8 billion debt due Tuesday, the same day the current bailout program expires.

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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.