Sunday, December 25, 2011

A continent of bad ideas

Why does noone see that Europe can have a nice currency union without fiscal union? I tried to put together this and some of the other bad ideas that I think are clouding the euro crisis debate in this post on the IGM/Bloomberg "business class" blog.

By artful application of bad ideas, Europe has taken a plain-vanilla sovereign restructuring and turned it into a banking crisis, a currency crisis, a fiscal crisis, and now a political crisis..

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