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The First World Debt Crisis
So the Masters of the Universe and their attendant professional politicians don’t recognize the world they were trying to create in their own, incredibly mean and parochial image.
Poor souls. A little humility, a little less confidence that by renaming them they could replace their debts with ‘leverage’, and we’d all stand a slightly better chance of enlightenment.
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