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An inopportune time for reckless experimentation

Published: July 16 2009 03:00 | Last updated: July 16 2009 03:00

From Dr Desmond Lachman.

Sir, It would be wonderful if a solution to the global financial crisis were as plain to see as Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Mark Spitznagel seem to suggest (“Time to tackle the real evil: too much debt”, July 14). In their view, all that is basically needed to resolve the financial crisis is an aggressive and systematic debt-for-equity conversion.

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