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White blue eyed bankers have brought the world economy to its knees Public Library

Submitted by davem on Friday, 3 April, 2009 - 19:48

ByDave Miller

URL: www.flickr.com/photos/davemiller/3408563389/sizes/o/

President Lula said it was completely unfair that the poorest people in the world were suffering most for the mistakes of wealthy, Western financiers.

This was a crisis that was fostered and boosted by irrational behaviour of people that are white, blue-eyed, that before the crisis looked like they knew everything about economics,’ he declared.

‘Now they have demonstrated that they don’t know anything about economics.’

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