Wondered about matters even in relatively-'progressive' Finland and environs.
Repeatedly such tales underscore the (many) deficiencies in Econ (the whole humongous topic) as are usually compounded by less than ept Pols.

Whatever the -ism applied to Finance (and its oft scurvy acolytes in their Veyrons) the brokenness is clearly worldwide. And yet.. and yet, there seems no serious, (worldwide confab to a purpose!) of denoting the commonalities of Murican Vulture-ism and the Euro clones.

But it's killing not just the dis-USA, IMnsHO. Fix that soon or ... none of the other shit gets done. Anywhere.