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The Rope Limit, Redux

BY DAVID MERKEL | FEBRUARY 09, 2010 | 9:16 AM | 0 COMMENTS

Sorry I haven't written much recently.  The recent snowstorms have tossed me around, as I care for my family, and those around me.  It is amusing in a backwards way, to see Washington, DC frozen at a time when there is so much volatility in global finance.  Yo, Treasury, make sure the skeleton crew on international finance gets in, regardless. The incentives are perverse in every way in Europe.  If Germany, France, and the Netherlands don't bail out Greece, then what will become of Portugal and Spain?  And later, Italy and Ireland?  In aggregate, this is big.

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