Emile Woolf: chain of fools

Financial double-talk and shoddy accounting have turned the eurozone into an economic prison from which there is little hope of escape, says Emile Woolf

Chicanery means ‘clever but misleading talk; a false argument; trickery; deception’, according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary and it seems to be prevalent wherever you look.

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