Remember that discredited term “too big to fail”? It has returned with a vengeance. The €85bn bail-out of Ireland being finalised in Brussels on Sunday is a bank rescue job. The Irish have been hurt not by the excessive borrowing, tax evasion or false national statistics that troubled the Greeks. What brought Ireland down were its banks; they have sunk the sovereign.
還記得那個臭名遠揚的“大到不能倒”嗎？如今它已卷土重來。上周日在布魯塞爾敲定的對愛爾蘭850億歐元的援助方案，是一次銀行紓困行動。與希臘不同，愛爾蘭的危機，并非因為過度舉債、逃稅漏稅或國家統計數據造假所致。拖垮愛爾蘭的是該國的銀行，是它們擊沉了這只主權之舟。
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