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Default OT. Channel Four are as bad as the BBC sometimes

On Tuesday, 8 November 2016 14:36:34 UTC, JoeJoe wrote:
On 08/11/2016 12:12, Martin wrote:
Greece's problems are that German banks lent Greece billions to
spend on German imports encouraged by the German government. Greece can't repay
the loans.


Well, Greece's problem is that people in Greece, in particular the self
employed and the middle classes are tax avoiders (upper classes don't
pay tax anywhere...). See
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....act_id=2109500 for example.


Greece's problem is the Euro.
Also being idle socialists,the thought they could scrounge a free living off the EUSSR.