Quotes of the Week:Which country did Soros blame for the Euro crisis?

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The eurozone crisis can mostly be blamed on one country, says George Soros. But which is it? It's our quotes of the week...

"Mr. Perkins poses an extreme risk to the market when drunk." The FSA on Simon Perkins, who has been fined £72,000 for trading £520m worth of oil futures in a drunken stupor, causing his former company PVM Oil Futures a $10m loss. "I can't even get you that." Gary Cohn, president of Goldman Sachs, responds to a question from the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) asking for a "ballpark" estimate of the money made by the bank from its derivatives trading. "I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they poten...

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