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Bank crisis: Payback time

The world has come a long way since the lurid headlines of 2008 warning that support for the banking sector would cost governments around the world trillions of dollars. While dangers still persist, money is steadily starting to return to government coffers. Writer Geraldine Lambe, Research Geraldine Lambe and Guillaume Hingel
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