The European debt crisis in eight graphs By Ezra Klein and Sarah Kliff, Updated: Thursday, December 1, 11:51 AM The European debt crisis can easily feel like an unwieldy, unmanageable mess of complex jargon and financial terms. Here's Wonkblog's explanation of what's happening across the Atlantic Ocean with the help of eight key graphs: The place to start with the European debt crisis is, well, with European debt. Put simply, the crisis in the euro zone is that the market doesn't trust that Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Portugal can pay back their debts, and so they don't want to lend them more money except at exorbitant rates. But to understand how Europe got into this mess, how countries like Greece managed to borrow so much money that they couldn't pay it all back, you need to see this graph from the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD). On the right side, you're seeing the story everyone already knows: The market is charging Southern European countri
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