Shakespeare and the debt crisis
Ahmed's Universe
MARCH 26, 2011
'PARIS In Shakespeare''s most famous play, Hamlet , one of the characters, Laertes, is about to embark for Paris and receives from his father some wise advice: Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Hamlet , Act I , Sc. 3, 75-77. Had our rulers heeded this sound advice proffered by the Bard half a millennium ago we would have been spared the disastrous budget crisis which many countries are suffering from.
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