What behavior by central and private banks in euro zone countries created the conditions for the 2009 euro crisis?
What will be an ideal response?
Assets were accumulated by the banks through the purchase of US financial products and through lending to other euro zone countries. Easy credit led to a European housing boom. Following the global financial crisis and the consequent recession, some European countries such as Greece Ireland Portugal Italy and Spain were found to have unsustainable levels of debt relative to national GDP. This raised the specter of a sovereign default by one or more euro zone countries and the crisis was on.
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