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Descending to Olive Republic status. Probably leaving the Euro would be for the best for the Greeks.
1 posted on 04/03/2015 4:41:03 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

No shocker here. Expected for the past six months.

The curious thing will be if Greek business operations will want Euros/dollars from tourists. Guess I’ll find out by the end of April (I have trip reservations into Athens).


2 posted on 04/03/2015 4:45:47 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Better print those Drachmas on toilet paper because that’s all they’re gonna be good for.

CC


4 posted on 04/03/2015 4:47:30 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
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The smart investor will try to corner the market for zeroes because Greece will need lots of them in later rounds of currency devaluations. Anyone want a hundred trillion drachma bill?
5 posted on 04/03/2015 5:05:13 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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Why don't they just do it? The poor people of Greece cannot pay back the loans to EU banks. All the little folk have seen for it is the destruction of their lives.

Kind of like what's happening here.

7 posted on 04/03/2015 5:23:55 AM PDT by grania
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Can’t those slacker Germans get night jobs to help pay for Greek retirements?


12 posted on 04/03/2015 5:58:03 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Ping.


13 posted on 04/03/2015 6:24:01 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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100 billion drachma note
15 posted on 04/03/2015 6:48:11 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin (A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
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They have no choice but to leave the Euro! What all of these “analysts” don’t realize is that they will never be able to devalue their currency if they keep the Euro, therefore they will never be able to pay off their debt regardless if they want to or not! The flaw with the Euro concept is different economies are just that, different. The way countries like Greece, Spain, and Italy remained solvent in the past is by deflating their currencies. If they cannot do that, they will always be in debt.


16 posted on 04/03/2015 6:51:05 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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Probably leaving the Euro would be for the best for the Greeks.

It'll be best for the Greek government -- for the Greek people, not so much.

A return to the Drachma will initiate a round of currency inflation that will wipe out what capital remains in Greece.

17 posted on 04/03/2015 7:35:49 AM PDT by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
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In the dead of night re establish the drachma on parity with the Euro.

Pay the greek debts in the new Greek Drachma.

Make the announcement and watch the drachma fall.


18 posted on 04/03/2015 7:40:52 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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