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Roughly 90 percent of Greek bailout funds have gone to financial institutions – not to help Greek residents.

Greece needs a cash infusion $55 billion over the next 3 years to recover from its debt crisis and stabilize the economy, says the IMF.

But Greece already received $265 billion in bailouts in the last  5 years. Yet that massive injection of cash has done little to mitigate the suffering of the Greek people.

More than 1/4 of the workforce remains unemployed, food insecurity is on the rise, & financial analysts say the country’s public infrastructure is badly underfunded. In effect, Greek citizens are still waiting for a bailout.

So where did all that money from Greece’s first two rescue packages go? Back to creditors, mostly.

“This is a giant creditor-debtor standoff,” said Brown Univ. political economy professor Mark Blyth. “The creditors have been made whole.”

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