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Ah, the lazy Greeks stereotype at it again. A myth spread by the creditor states' governments, namely Germany's Angela Merkel, when in fact the Eurozone is brok
by petre 2y ago
Ah, the lazy Greeks stereotype at it again. A myth spread by the creditor states' governments, namely Germany's Angela Merkel, when in fact the Eurozone is broken by design.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/design-failures-eurozone https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/design-failures-eurozone
- rcbdev 2y agoMaybe faking most of the data to join the Eurozone is not such a good idea then, Greece. So is also not kicking them out the second the swindle is realized, EU. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/23/world/europe/greece-admits-faking-data-to-join-europe.html https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/23/world/europe/greece-admit...
- leansensei 2y agoThe EU was complicit in pretending that Greece's data could be taken without a mound of salt.
- petre 2y agoGuess who helped Greece hide their debt? Goldman and Sachs. And guess who worked for Goldman during that time? Mario Draghi, who was rewarded with a term as the ECB president afterwards. https://www.politico.eu/article/mario-draghi-ecb-trichet-bank-financial-crisis-economy/ https://www.politico.eu/article/mario-draghi-ecb-trichet-ban...
- izacus 2y agoFor someone to be complicit, the other party had to be instigator of the crime, right? Poor Greeks, forced into corruption, they would NEVER do that by themselves!