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Re:Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from... by tsimionescu on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:28AM (#22384348)
No. The point you are missing is that it is also not ok for the lender to lend everyone a billion dollars, wait for people to default, and then go ask the government to give them a billion dollars back because otherwise they will go bankrupt.

If the supply of money has essentially been exhausted, then both borrowers and lenders have been doing something wrong, and it should be BOTH that suffer, so that both are incentivized not to resch this point again. What happened in Greece instead was that only the borrowers suffered, the lenders got all their money back.

Re:Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from... by fifnir on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:45AM (#22384490)
> What happened in Greece instead was that only the borrowers suffered, the lenders got all their money back.

Even worse, it'll be the borrower's children who will suffer the consequences.

Re:Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from... by mrtksn on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:46AM (#22384497)
No, I don't miss that point. Some people should definitely go to jail.

But what is the solution here? Be really angry to the lenders and make them keep writing checks to the fraudulent borrowers?

Re:Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from... by occamrazor on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:31PM (#22384918)
The lenders actually suffered approximately a 30% haircut on long-term Greek bonds.