[MadIvan]

I'm having difficulty not gloating.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Dundee]

Gloat away, my friend.

[SAJ]

You would have enjoyed some of the threads on marketforum.com (if you haven't seen them), in 2001-2003 (WIFKED grin, m'friend).

Don't know who said it first, but the wogs STILL begin at Calais.

Happy Christmas to you!

[bruinbirdman]

As goes the euro, so goes the European Union: DOOMED.

Capitalism wins one way or another even in socialist states.

Seems like the euro has always been "stealth capitalism".

yitbos

[decal]

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?" -- Charles de Gaulle

And how many varieties do Germany and the other EU countries have combined?

It's a wonder the Euro has lasted this long.

MI, do the Tories still have Europhile and Euroskeptic wings? I always was of the impression that that split did more than anything else to bring in Labour.

Blast John Major.

[Echo Talon]

West Sussex, England, UK

Hows the dental care? I saw another brit on O'Reilly tonight and she had some gnarled looking teeth...(pretty girl, but some nasty looking teeth and I bet some really bad breath too)

[sully777]

Ponzi scheme that is kept afloat because so many very powerful clients are in up to their foreheads. No constitution just a enormous shell game hosted by die hard socialists, fascist, statist, and communists.

[driftless2]

All my Brit in-laws hate the idea of the Euro replacing the pound sterling and are somewhat less than fond of the EEC to put it mildly. They regard the anonymous bureaucrats who set the union's various screwball standards as a bunch of petty tyrants. Which they certainly appear to be. The dictate about bananas having to be perfectly straight was the one that cracked me up the most.

[Mrs Ivan]

I am so very glad we didn't go for the Euro - and even more glad that today is the last day that I have to use the excuse for a currency regularly.

Still, the Germans seem to like it, and that should be an message to us all.

[Vigilanteman]

I'd like to get your take on why the Euro hasn't plunged yet. It does seem long overdue. Is Soros money propping it up? Or more likely, Soros owned politicians at the expense of the Eurozone taxpayers?

[gridlock]

The coming failure of Airbus is going to be a tremendous strain on the European Union. I don't know if they can survive it.

And Airbus is going to fail. Have no doubt. It is only a question of how many taxpayer Euros are going to be flushed down the toilet before they are allowed to expire.

[Brilliant]

The euro is not going away. Even the US Fed Reserve believes it is good for international trade, so I suspect that the US will do what it can to prop it up.

[.cnI redruM]

I'd say that once member states want to set their own rental rates on capital, you no longer have a unified currency. I'd hate to think what the No. Virginia real estate market would be like if there were different intrest rates for Maryland, DC and Virginia. The single Europe is still light years away.

[jmaroneps37]

I was in euro-trash land in August. I came away convinced it was a classic tower of babel. It was created out of jealousy it the self deluded notion that they could become America while still being a socialist pie hole. It has nowhere to go but down and its next currency is the "camel dung" or whatever their very soon to be Islamic masters decide it should be.

[newzjunkey]

The US dollar is doing so well against the euro... (/sarcasm)

[Finalapproach29er]

The Lord builds the nations, and tears down the nations; frustrating their plans....

[Thermalseeker]

bump for later

[Drango]

I don't know abou this...right now the Euro is beating the snot out of the $.

[MARKUSPRIME]

Wait till the euro goes to $1.50 USD. The mainland socialist euros will be shyting bricks because no one will buy their exports. So they will have to increase taxs even more to support their nanny state welfare programs.Should be fun to watch.

Capitalism>socialism all has been,always will be.

[Mi-kha-el]

I wonder what the Euro-In-Dollar-Out doom-and-gloomers would say to that. In Russia, e.g., they have already burried Mr. Greenback and are dancing on its imaginary grave. I wonder what tune they are going to sing when they will have to buy back the bucks at twice the cost.