Put three people in a room who cant get on with each other. Condemn them to stay there for all eternity while they torture each other. Sit and watch as the gruesome story plays out. And what do you have?
One answer is the 1944 existentialist play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis Clos. Another is the story of the never-ending Greek debt crisis in which the three main characters are Alexis Tsipras, Wolfgang Schäuble and Christine Lagarde.
The plot is as follows. Greece has been through a terrible slump. Its economy has shrunk by more than a quarter, equivalent to the Great Depression in the United States. Its financial position has become so parlous and its credit-rating so poor that it needs financial help to get by. It is currently on its …
Read the full article at: https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2017/feb/05/greek-debt-crisis-existentialist-drama-schauble-tsipras-lagarde-trump
