Making, as the quote shows, the EFSF make the same mistake now as the eurozone did those years ago which brought us to this current crisis.

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They put up traffic lights, so they make us "stop to avoid the inconvenience of slowing down", to quote traffic writer Kenneth Todd.

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This may be the wrong time to quote Dominique Strauss-Kahn, but the bad boy had it right when he said that countries make awful decisions when they deliberately misprice.

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