Debt Problems Chip Away at Fortress Europe

As a result, governments in the 16 countries that use the euro must now confront a new and disturbing reality: The deal they struck more than a decade ago to create a common currency area, hoping that a single central bank could manage to paper over the divergent economic and financial conditions of its members, is finally being challenged. Full Story »

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Jim Lang
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by Jim Lang - Feb. 6, 2010

A very readable story on the effect that deficits in southern European countries are having on the interest rates, the Euro and the view of the IMF.

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Paul Stambaugh
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by Paul Stambaugh - Feb. 6, 2010

A very short piece with limited facts used to showcase their point of view.

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Feb. 6, 2010
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Warrior Wheatman
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by Warrior Wheatman - Feb. 13, 2010

Well written, good economic insight. The Euro is being tested; It may need the International Monetary Fund to stabilize its unity.

The European and American recovery are in a long stall; waiting for the global equalization that global markets have engendered.

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