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Signs of financial repression in the eurozone are already widespread. Greece this week sold six-month bills at auction at a yield of 4.95 per cent, more than 1.5 percentage points lower than Italy recently sold similar bills. But in the secondary markets, the only yields that Bloomberg quotes for Greek short-dated paper are 330 per cent for one-year bills.

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