European debt crisis has same roots as ours -- excess

European debt crisis has same roots as ours -- excess
Daniel Akst, Los Angeles Times, May 5, 2010
Its culture of self-sufficiency, always at risk in a welfare state, broke down. In the U.S., too much credit and too little regulation revealed the flaws of our form of capitalism.

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