Eurocrisis

And then the credit crunch happened, and the banks needed to be “bailed out”. Normally, what you bail out is a leaky boat. But periodically removing the water from a leaking vessel doesn’t actually solve the underlying problem. Once you’re in dock, you need to fix the hole.

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