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February 25, 2013

Comment: What comes cheap is actually very expensive for the Romanian banking system
Feb 25, 2013

Comment: What comes cheap is actually very expensive for the Romanian banking system.
When I recently read that 4,000 people from the Romanian banking system had been laid off, more than 820 branches closed and the average salary in the industry decreased from RON 4,000 to RON 3,400, I remembered something that my mother used to tell me “What comes cheap is really very (...)
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