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This crisis was fostered and boosted by irrational behaviour of some people that are white, blue-eyed. Before the crisis they looked like they knew everything about economics, and they have demonstrated they know nothing about economics.

That’s a quote of the Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from yesterday during a meeting with UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Another translation records his descriptive phrase of those responsible for the current economic meltdown as “white people with blue eyes”, and as such, yes, I am to blame.

[the guardian reports]