‘market forces’ are driving national deficits higher via automatic stabilizers which drives the euro lower to the point exports rise sufficiently to turn the tide, but that needs to happen before the rising deficits result in defaults.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:04 AM, La-Toya Elizee wrote:

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