The loan pressures will intensify early next year when state funding is recalculated to reflect declines in the parties' support. At present, funding is still based on the proportion of votes each party won in the June 2009 election. But in January funding will change to reflect votes cast in June 2012.

At that election Pasok saw its share of the vote plunge from 43 percent to 12 percent, while New Democracy's share fell from 33 percent to 29 percent. The big winner was leftist Syriza, which opposed the bailout terms. Its share of the vote shot up to 27 percent from 4.6 percent in 2009, and it now stands to receive significantly more funding.

Which is funny in a black humor kind of way, because the two parties—conservative New Democracy and socialist Pasok—just reached a deal on $17 billion worth of spending cuts and revenue (tax) measures in hope of a) satisfying European rescuers and b) pissing Greek citizens off? So maybe not in hopes of, but nonetheless: We're not talking about demonstrators armed with sandwich boards and singalongs, but uh, gas masks and Molotov cocktails.

So: Support for the coalition parties has plummeted,  and they're set to receive less state money when funding formulas are recalculated to include June elections, making the parties a) poorer and b) debtors with their own special interests, even as they engage in restructuring the nation's debts.

European leaders promised a more integrated banking system at the G-20 meeting in Mexico City yesterday, listing common banking oversight and depositor guarantees among future steps to be considered.

Asset managers like Legg Mason are preparing for worst case news out of Europe.

Greek savers aren't the only ones stuffing banknotes under their mattresses; Reuters reports that institutional investors are increasingly holding cash.

("If you wrapped up all the $100 bills in circulation, it would form a cube about 74 feet per side...")

Spain paid 2 percentage points more to borrow on 12-month bonds yesterday than it did one month ago.

If all that paints too rosy a picture, talk to Mark J. Grant.

For a little optimist, CNBC brings you Mark Mobius.

Jon Stewart interviews the drachma.

Your tab... Goldman Sachs advanced Rajat Gupta nearly $30 million to cover legal expenses, according to The New York Times, salt in the wounds after a) the former McKinsey & Co. chief executive and Goldman director passed Goldman secrets to hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, according to the jury and b) Mr. Gupta's defense team took an adversarial approach to the parade of Goldman execs appearing at the witness stand (one attorney for Mr. Gupta called Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein "cold and callous," according to The Times). Anyway, Goldman has been picking up the tab because firm bylaws require the bank to pay the legal fees of executives and board directors; Mr. Gupta signed a pretrial agreement stipulating that he would pay his own legal bills if convicted.

Hide the whale: Bruno Iksil, the JPMorgan trader known as the London Whale, sometimes resisted sharing the details of his trading positions with superiors,The Wall Street Journalreports: "Mr. Iksil once confided to the colleague that when he wanted to avoid questions from supervisors about his trades, he sometimes would start discussing a mathematical term, equation or other technical jargon, to confuse and end the conversation."

Jamie Dimon is scheduled to testify before the "harsher and crazier" House of Representatives today.

BofA to divest? Swiss private bank Julius Baer is in talks to acquire Bank of America's non-U.S. wealth management unit, which manages about $90 billion, and which Reuters says could be worth about $2 billion.

Short-term fix: Nine months and $15 million later, Michael Francis is out as president of J.C. Penney.