Monday, January 30, 2012

Zombie banks are dragging Ireland into the ground

Click here to access article by Nick Dearden from Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt. 
Ireland’s financial crisis has much in common with scores of countries across the developing world. The country has been brought to its knees by an enormous debt, which originated not with excessive public spending, but a footloose financial sector that gambled with the future of the country. Without so much as a vote, Ireland’s people found themselves on the hook for tens of billions of euros of reckless investments.
The author explains how this happened.