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| Bank of America has a nice twist on a Greek exit, or "Grexit" as everybody now calls it.
The euro would shoot up to $1.40 against the dollar (after first falling to $1.20 in the immediate panic). It is $1.27 now.
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Luckily SunGard APT doesn’t make films. Pretty much nothing happens in its version of that great euro drama Acropolis Now.
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| Suddenly, it has become easy to see how the euro — that grand, flawed experiment in monetary union without political union — could come apart at the seams. We’re not talking about a distant prospect, either.... more » |
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