Sounds explosive.
Comparison:
“But in 2010, economic conditions weren’t normal. Greece’s attachment to an already shaky Europe made its sovereign debt problems the equivalent of a lit stick of dynamite being tossed into a munitions factory..”
Rarely has debt seemed so dangerous. Yes?
Context:
“But in 2010, economic conditions weren’t normal. Greece’s attachment to an already shaky Europe made it sovereign debt problems the equivalent of a lit stick of dynamite being tossed into a munitions factory. Because it was a member of the European Union common market, where companies and people worked, traveled, and traded under a unified side of regulations and without regard to national borders, Greece’s economic troubles easily migrated.”
Obama, Barack. A Promised Land. Crown, 2020. p. 528.
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