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Re:Greek Banks, Stock Exchange to Remain Closed From Monday by gull on Sunday June 28, 2015 @03:21PM (#9794685)
They weren't that perfectly free. According to Noble prize winning economist Paul Krugman:

"if Grexit happens it will be because the creditors, or at least the IMF, wanted it to happen."

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/breaking-greece/...

http://www.businessinsider.com/krugman-europe-greece-2015-6

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Re:Greek Banks, Stock Exchange to Remain Closed From Monday by evanpw on Sunday June 28, 2015 @04:02PM (#9794851)
My disagreement with the second-to-top-level comment is that they consider "default would be bad" to be unjustified FUD. Krugman is on my side: "force Greece into a presumably disastrous default". He's just faulting the other side (the Troika) for being so aggressive in negotiating that default seems like the least-bad option.
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Re:Greek Banks, Stock Exchange to Remain Closed From Monday by gull on Monday June 29, 2015 @01:29AM (#9796563)
Between this austerity and this default, default is better. See above.
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