04.08.2016 - Economics: Singular currency
Who killed the euro? With the spotlight now on Britain's relationship with the currency's crucible, the European Union, that question has an edge. Were the culprits the visionary politicians who ignored structural differences between European economies when they conceived the euro in the 1980s — most notably Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission at the time? Was it the neoliberal international economic and financial establishment, in Washington DC, New York and London as well as Frankfurt and Brussels, that thought markets (even financial ones) were rational and self-correcting?..............................................Full Article: Source
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