Bad Times Just Around The Corner

[poliphilo]

The Euro is foundering. The guys in charge are preparing to cut Greece loose like a broken spar. I've no idea what the next few years are going to be like for us Europeans, but I think they'll be interesting (in the Chinese sense).

Yesterday Francois Hollande's inauguration parade was rained on and his plane (on its way to Berlin and a confab with Angela Merkel) got struck by lightning. It must be nice not to believe in omens...

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

All the dunderheads look alike, to me.

Why wouldn't they want to leave the Euro? A credible threat to leave should have been Greece's first reaction to the crisis. Really, this whole thing is just surreal, like Europe has been sucked into an alternate reality.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Apparently being in the Euro seemed like a really good deal- to begin with.

The world of money is surreal.