Brett Arends, via Portugal Contemporâneo:
The fear?
It isn’t that if Greece leaves the euro the Greeks will then suffer a terrible economic meltdown.
The fear is that if Greece leaves the euro, the country will return to prosperity — and then other countries might follow suit.
Take a look at the chart, above.
As you can see, Greece with the bad old drachma had double the economic growth of Greece under the euro. Double. And it wasn’t alone.
Italy, Spain and Portugal tell similar stories. Their economic growth back in the 1980s and 1990s, when they were “struggling” with the lira, the peseta, and the escudo, makes a mockery of their performance under the German-dominated euro.
Apparently having control of your own national currency and your own monetary policy works well with having your own government and your own national sovereignty.
Who knew?
Realmente… o que os americanos dizem e fazem para colocar um ponto final na aventura Euro, é mesmo de pasmar 😉
Como é que você cita um idiota destes? Então a Grécia agora comunista e fora do euro vai “return to prosperity”? É esse o medo?