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Re:Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from... by thefounder on Friday February 21, 2020 @10:51AM (#22383981)
The lender is responsible to get its money back and pay its shareholders and that's it. Now the government is responsible to protect its people.

It looks like the Greek gov(which represents the Greek people) was not very responsible when it took the loans and arguably neither when it nearly got bankrupted.

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Re:Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from... by fifnir on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:18AM (#22384239)
I want you to explain to me in what situation such a lender could ever have a loss.

I want you to explain to me why it's reasonable that the lender makes profits when things go right, but the public has to take the loss when things go wrong.

Isn't in the nature of a free market that lending is an inherently risky business ?

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