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The point is, people lent them that money, without caring if they could or not pay...

Well, the product is named soy lent after all...

So the money that the Banks lent to Greece and collect interest on is actually EU tax money?

The bailout was; Greece was lent money it could not have gotten on the open market.

If you're asking why creditors lent them money in the first place, a lot of that predates the financial crisis.

The real problem is that banks lent to Greece without doing their due diligence evaluating risk.

Most of the money that's being lent is for repaying existing debts that come due.

But there wasn't a ban on travel to Hamar, nor a state that lent prestige to the dialect spoken in the capital.

That would have lent the video more credibility and shielded the researchers from liability, while addressing any concerns about safety or ethics.

One of the cashiers lent me $5 to help me pay for my groceries (I paid him back).

Just an empty barn full of taxpayers’ money that is not being lent out.

The bankers who lent to these states understood perfectly well that there was in fact a long-term risk, an uncertainty, a constructive ambiguity.

> I can't believe that banks and governments were so stupid that they couldn't analyze situation Of course they could, and the banks should have participated in a debt cut - they recklessly lent money to Greece in an extend & pretend scheme, cashing in on a high-risk interest rate, without actually risking a default "because bailout".