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Lessons from the Great Depression won't help us now

Iain Macwhirter on recovery.

It's not bad being a banker, really. All you have to do is borrow money at a low interest rate from the government and then lend it at a higher interest rate to businesses and mortgagees. Doesn't take a lot of genius to do that.