Wall Street's Role in Greece's Debt Crisis - The Atlantic

``From ‘02 until the financial crisis in ‘08, Wall Street shoved as much toxic waste down [the European] banks' throats as they could handle. It wasn't hard. Like the Japanese customers before them, the European banks were hell bent on indiscriminately buying assets from all over the globe. Why were the banks, rather than Greece, bailed out in 2010? Why was Greece asked to change its ways and accused of reckless borrowing, rather than the banks accused of reckless lending?''