Thank God for timely capital flight!

Because of the regulatory incentives of only having to hold 1.6 percent in equity when lending to Greece, which meant being allowed to leverage their bank equity a mind-boggling 62.5 to 1, German and other European banks lent to Greece like crazy and at crazy low rates. What would you have liked the Greeks to do?... the same nonsense?... so that even more money had been lost down the same drain? 

No thank God there was some intelligent and timely capital flight, and private Greeks placed at least some or their funds out of harm´s way. 

Now it is up to these private Greeks, to see how, with their diminished resources they can best help their homeland, in times when helping it might actually produce some good results.