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The Greek Coup: Liquidity as a Weapon of Coercion

Aug 2, 2015
In the modern global banking system, all banks need a credit line with the central bank in order to be part of the payments system. Choking off that credit line was a form of blackmail the Greek government couldn’t refuse.