Over the past 20 years, net of fees, Kauffman has been paid out 1.31 times, on average, the amount that it invested in any given fund - well below the standard "venture rate of return" of twice committed capital. The payout is meant to come after no more than 10 years, but the 10-year figure is honored mainly in the breach: Kauffman alone has 23 funds more than 10 years old, and eight funds more than 15 years old. One fund, at age 19, still retains more than 20% of the capital that Kauffman committed way back in 1992.

If European policymakers want a Greek bankruptcy to end up like a GM non-event rather than a Lehman-style catastrophe, the main lesson is they need to prepare. They've certainly had lots of time. The snag is that they've squandered it. Greece's debt of around 350 billion euros is widely held across the European banking system, including the country's own banks. But most of them have not penciled in a default. So even a methodical haircut would need to be preceded by a mechanism that shores up banks' capital and reinforces their funding lines; otherwise there might indeed be a post-Lehman style banking panic.

Libor underlies everything from derivatives trades to U.S. consumer credit card rates to loans as far afield as those financing Turkish phone networks. Barclays also tried to manipulate Euribor, a separately managed series of euro-denominated rates.

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