Everyone talks about Greece leaving the euro. Greece and the Greeks don't want to. Who in their right mind would buy a Greek government drachma-denominated bond? No one talks about the other side of the coin. If you were Finland, a small country with a 2011 GDP of $258 bn, and you were asked to jointly underwrite the debt of much bigger countries (~Spain's GDP $1491 bn), you had a AAA credit rating and a government surplus, would you not want to leave? Especially given that your cousins (Sweden, Norway) that are outside of the euro are thriving? I'll buy a Finnish markka bond, won't you?
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