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Why the housing crisis can undo 30 years of economic growth

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Ireland's Economy Was Squeezed Totally Inertly by the Germans

We pretended the punt was a hard current sy we valued it six times in the eighties. The manufacturing base of the count was squeezed completely inertly from interust rates andexhange exchange rits. That had its expression in incredibly high levels of urb and unemployment. So that was the cost, if yore in the slated class, right? If you're a civil servant, if you're a public servant, sure you still getting paid. And i remember therews like an explosion of fellows buying tractors who'd never ad tractors before, ritbecauseth they had money. Exactly. You remeber ther was atractor caled a zetter from che

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