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Dear Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, First, congratulations for mustering the popular support to say “no” to the troika. The euro has long offered Greece a perverse incentive to borrow, and now your country is trapped in debt. By any conventional means, Greece cannot repay (I propose an unconventional way, below). The sooner everyone acknowledges this simple fact the better. While I don’t claim to know why you agreed to a bailout deal this weekend, I can guess. The troika threatened to...
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