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this is such a rubik's cube of a problem.

just how confusing was shown to me by this: http://www.counterpunch.org/grubacic02022008.html, and this: http://www.counterpunch.org/szamuely02152008.html and just when my head was about to explode, i found this:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/17/jasmina-tesanovic-ko-1.html#comments which was at least easier to read!

good luck!

maybe we could have offered them a national footy team, and a promise of the world cup in say 2045 instead, but no-o-o-o....

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty