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"“The public is deeply concerned about how much is being racked up on the country’s credit card. They know you can’t just borrow your way out of debt. It puts an excessive burden on future generations. It means that any recovery is stifled by this weight of debt.” "
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De acordo com a DECO, qual a principal opção escolhida pelas famílias sobre-endividadas?
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Pedir mais dinheiro emprestado para pagar as dívidas já existentes.
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Quais costumam ser as consequências?
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""The more you borrow as government the more you have to sell that debt and the less attractive your currency seems" (julgo que continua a aplicar-se mesmo a quem está no euro, à capacidade de pagar a dívida)."
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"In Hollywood's Judaeo-Christian mindset, stories must have a resolution, a making good. Learned men find solutions or justice is brought to bear. Bad things happen because we lack knowledge or because people misbehave. Good rules can solve the problem. It is a powerful idea that explains the American obsession with regulation. A legion of US lawyers will soon attempt to draft rules to prevent people doing bad things with money."
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"The Ancient Greeks believed that the gods punished arrogance and they wrote tragedies to remind us that we are playthings of jealous, malign divinities. These are not comforting fairytales in which villains are punished and good guys get the money and the girl. Greek tragedies are warnings. Sophocles' Oedipus, a new version of which is now on at the National Theatre in London, is a compelling but hideous spectacle. There is no justice and no redemption for the hero, only punishment."
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"This doesn't play well in Hollywood, and not just because studios favour happy endings. Stories that dispense with fairness make us uncomfortable. We like to believe that we are rational materialists who look for scientific solutions."
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"But there is something disquieting and pagan about this unravelling financial disaster. Brainy people borrowed too much, choosing to believe that the value of a house could rise beyond affordability. Such blind belief in asset values is the faith that underpins our global economy. If we stopped believing that share prices would continue to rise, we would never invest.
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If people in the eastern Mediterranean 10,000 years ago had doubted that the rains would come in the right month, they would never have planted seed. Financial markets are a gigantic extension of the farmer's gamble. It rained last year, it will rain this year."
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