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Greek currency swaps 'masked debt'

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How did Greece manage to mask the true scale of its debt? A senior banker at the investment bank Goldman Sachs has said that currency swaps it did with Greece ten years ago which made the country's deficit look smaller "could and should have been" more transparent. Business editor Robert Peston explains the implications of the swap.

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