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Thu 12 Dec 2008Government cannot bank on venture capitalists
OPINION:The State should be extremely careful in allowing venture capitalists take a stake in Irish banks, writes Patrick Honohan.
GOVERNMENTS IN a dozen countries on both sides of the Atlantic have by now injected new capital into their country's banks by purchasing shares. They have done so for one or more of three reasons.
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