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And this -- greece had been living much further beyond its means than it fessed up to. and this triggered the crisis in the financial markets. >> what about ireland? you go to ireland and say this is a place that only yesterday was the richest -- was the place booming in a way that even places like london seemed tame. >> that's right. >> investment bankers would go from london, irish people who went to work for goldman sachs and go home on the weekend and felt poor kind of thing. this country trip was historically december constitute. it had gone from the poorest in europe to among the richest...