Doing some research for an article about ‘Ten years of crisis’ for a Dutch weekly in July 1983, I interviewed Pieter Korteweg at the Dutch Ministry of Finance. ‘We are in debt all over,’ top cleric Korteweg said. ‘We have put it in a table. Take 1976 as a starting point, from that year on [...]
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