Not surprising to anyone who has been paying attention, but worrisome all the same.

Wonder who is making money off the bi-weekly "Euro scare" now? I'm guessing we'll see this in the news whenever someone needs a little extra coke money...

Serious Question: If the Eurozone breaks up, would it generally become MORE or LESS expensive for North Americans to vacation there?

I am guessing that it will probably vary by country (e.g., Germany vs. Greece), but I am wondering if anyone better educated than me on the European economy would be willing to make a general prediction for the overall zone . . .

/Need to fix the e-com-uny
//. . . and the trash avalanches

xtragrind: Wonder who is making money off the bi-weekly "Euro scare" now? I'm guessing we'll see this in the news whenever someone needs a little extra coke money...


Define money.

sophus_tree: Serious Question: If the Eurozone breaks up, would it generally become MORE or LESS expensive for North Americans to vacation there?

I am guessing that it will probably vary by country (e.g., Germany vs. Greece),



Pretty much. I would be living like a king in Italy and a prince in Spain, when a dollar is worth X thousands of New Lira (+5% a week hyperinflation) and I can buy up houses in Tuscany with my car-wash tokens and have a gaggle of those sassy, passion filled, big bosomed Italian women to sit on my face like my name is Berlusconi.

Meanwhile Germany's recession would worsen and possibly turn into a full blown depression as no one else in Europe could afford their wonderful luxury goods anymore. Hopefully some charismatic one-balled ex-painter wearing snazzy outfits doesn't grab the opportunity to give a lot of speeches and rile up the Teutons into a third great migration.