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Financial Spilled Milk: Macbeth Meets Ponzi

It doesn’t matter how much milk you spill, just so long as you don’t lose the cow. ~ Mark Guilbeau “Fair is foul and foul is fair.” (Macbeth, Witches, Act I, scene i) The EU is the latest hero in the bailout bonanza. A paltry trillion dollars bought a rip-roaring short-covering rally on stock markets…