The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone … - Jonathan Sacks

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Jonathan Sacks

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

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