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What would you do with $700 billion?

I can’t get this out of my head.

I know this is simplistic, and I’d never have dreamt making this sort of comparison when I studied Development Economics two decades ago.
But wait a minute, when other, less powerful nations needed bailouts in the past, weren’t these accompanied by stringent conditions? At the same time the rich nations exalted [...]