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Britain is sleepwalking into a debt trap
Britain’s economic debate rests on a dangerous assumption. Debt crises are things that happen elsewhere. Greece, perhaps. Argentina, certainly. But not the United Kingdom – a mature economy with its own currency, deep capital markets and centuries of institutional credibility.History offers little comfort to countries that think this way. Countries rarely enter fiscal crisis by accident. They do so after convincing themselves the usual constraints no longer apply. [...]