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> The Greek crisis started in 2009, the paper came out in Jan 2010, harsh austerity measures were imposed on Greece in May 2010 by the EC/ECB and then they just
by peterfirefly 3y ago
> The Greek crisis started in 2009, the paper came out in Jan 2010, harsh austerity measures were imposed on Greece in May 2010 by the EC/ECB and then they just kept coming for years on end. The timeline works perfectly and the EC/ECB had not imposed such measures before.
Greece was free to not borrow money and go bankrupt instead. That would also have led to austerity but in a much more chaotic way.