2010; Greece; President Obama!

Sounds explosive.

Comparison:

“But in 2010, economic conditions weren’t normal. Greece’s attachment to an already shaky Europe made its sovereign debt problems the equivalent of a lit stick of dynamite being tossed into a munitions factory..”

Rarely has debt seemed so dangerous. Yes?

Context:

“But in 2010, economic conditions weren’t normal. Greece’s attachment to an already shaky Europe made it sovereign debt problems the equivalent of a lit stick of dynamite being tossed into a munitions factory. Because it was a member of the European Union common market, where companies and people worked, traveled, and traded under a unified side of regulations and without regard to national borders, Greece’s economic troubles easily migrated.”

Obama, Barack. A Promised Land. Crown, 2020. p. 528.

(explosive image courtesy of Pyrogrimace, CC 4.0, 2017)