Remember that discredited term “too big to fail”? It has returned with a vengeance. The €85bn bail-out of Ireland being finalised in Brussels on Sunday is a bank rescue job. The Irish have been hurt not by the excessive borrowing, tax evasion or false national statistics that troubled the Greeks. What brought Ireland down were its banks; they have sunk the sovereign.
还记得那个臭名远扬的“大到不能倒”吗？如今它已卷土重来。上周日在布鲁塞尔敲定的对爱尔兰850亿欧元的援助方案，是一次银行纾困行动。与希腊不同，爱尔兰的危机，并非因为过度举债、逃税漏税或国家统计数据造假所致。拖垮爱尔兰的是该国的银行，是它们击沉了这只主权之舟。
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