Leader: The real Greek tragedy

IT DEFIES sense and logic, but just three years after a failure of regulation in the global banking industry pitched the world towards an economic abyss, we are once again facing the prospect of an international crisis accelerated by the unfettered excesses of casino finance.

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Source: Scotland on Sunday

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