September 12, 2012

Germany's Bad Currency Nostalgia

Clive Crook, Bloomberg

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Let’s hope Germany thinks hard about George Soros’s proposal that it should lead the euro system or leave it. The more carefully Germans study this choice, the more eager they will be to make the present system work.

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