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Infinite Cans, Infinite Roads

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In the opening scene of Woody Allen’s 1975 film Love and Death, his character Boris narrates: “Isn’t all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed? The difference is that all men go eventually, but I go six o’clock tomorrow morning. I was supposed to go at five o’clock, but I have a smart lawyer. Got leniency.”

And that, my friends, is exactly what we’ve just seen with this entire Greece farce.

How much ink was spilled analyzing this? How many blog posts went up on ZeroHedge alone about what could happen, what might happen, and what the various probabilities were?

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