Mario is a communist, and communism just ain't as popular in Europe as it once was.

Greece, even if it gets its latest slug of bailout money, is going to default soon, with consequences that no one quite knows yet.

This is the weirdest thing to me. Everyone acknowledges that Greece is a lost cause but they keep throwing money at it in a game of "let's pretend". If they can't solve the problems associated with this one small country, what are they going to do for the other basket cases that are many times worse? At this point, I'd think Germany would be pulling out and leaving the rest of the EU to its economic doom, rather than signing on to finance more of this fiasco.

What about his nephew Ezio?

They could put a team of the smartest, most well-intentioned people in that position and it still wouldn't work. Forget Mario, we need Wario

save the euro? bu...bu...but farksperts all told me the euro was replacing the dollar as the world economy?

Well Wario is a libertarian.

What a pessimistic article.

jjorsett: Greece, even if it gets its latest slug of bailout money, is going to default soon, with consequences that no one quite knows yet.

This is the weirdest thing to me. Everyone acknowledges that Greece is a lost cause but they keep throwing money at it in a game of "let's pretend". If they can't solve the problems associated with this one small country, what are they going to do for the other basket cases that are many times worse? At this point, I'd think Germany would be pulling out and leaving the rest of the EU to its economic doom, rather than signing on to finance more of this fiasco.

I think Germany is busy scrounging up old Deutsche Marks.

I heard somewhere that the Germans kind of go along with this sort of nonsense out of a sense of guilt for that whole WWII/Holocaust thing. So when their neighbors come to them asking for money they put it up even if it isn't a good investment.

But that same program also mentioned that the Germans are about out of guilt and are getting pretty fed up with the rest of Europe. So that will end well I'm sure.

/Portugal, Italy, Spain, and Greece should never even have been considered for addition to the EU. Not until they grow up and become real countries.

watson.t.hamster: I heard somewhere that the Germans kind of go along with this sort of nonsense out of a sense of guilt for that whole WWII/Holocaust thing. So when their neighbors come to them asking for money they put it up even if it isn't a good investment.

But that same program also mentioned that the Germans are about out of guilt and are getting pretty fed up with the rest of Europe. So that will end well I'm sure.

They're already facing the prospect of putting state assets up as collateral, so if/when the Euro experiment fails, then yeah, it'll end well alright. In fire.

Only feasible way Germany could quickly recoup its investments in the Euro if/when it fails is to take it back by force. Almost time to stock up on popcorn?

here we go.
THermapalye (spelling?), brought you by dc comics.

Lesbos, brought to you by Chaz Bono

attica, brought to you by basements are us.

we should have a photoshop contest of what sponsors will be paying for famous places