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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Thursday, 10 May 2012 [View all]Warpy
(110,900 posts)6. Nationalize them, go through all the books with a fine toothed comb
and jail the ones engaged in fraud.
That's the way to pull the banks out of this one. Nothing else will do, especially while the culture of corruption at the top exists.
If they don't do this, the banks will continue to lurch their host countries from crisis to crisis.
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