Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Euro Collapse Scenarios

Tony Gentile / Reuters

As The Crisis Refuses To Calm, Scenarios Of Euro Collapse Appear -- Bruce Crumley, Time

Despite the distracting political drama over the UK’s outlier rejection at last week’s European Union agreement on fiscal and budgetary coordination, it’s now become clear that main objective of the collective effort–to ensure the survival of the euro, and more broadly bolster Europe’s economic outlook–has not been attained, and that the currency has won a short-term respite at best. So with the monetary chaos and European debt crisis still looming large and posing troubling questions, it would be unwise to ignore hypotheses now arising about what might happen if certain countries dropped out of the euro zone—or if the entire currency imploded. While that is still very much “what if” theorizing at this point, such a potential crisis is worth examining, if only to identify signs of what may await if things continue to deteriorate.

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My Comment: A depressing read .... but not surprising .... read it all.

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