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October 15, 2012

The One-two Punch Crippling Spain

Milton Ezrati, The National Interest

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Spain is special. Every European country these days seems to have its financial crisis. Spain has two. One crisis stems from the by-now-commonplace mismanagement of the nation’s finances. The other stems from a collapsed real-estate bubble and all the financial strain that can cause.

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