Awesome illustration of the Eurozone by Andrew Rae:
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Map via NYT
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Source:
Europe’s Financial Crisis, in Plain English
ADAM DAVIDSON, JACOB GOLDSTEIN and CAITLIN KENNEY
NYT Magazine November 30, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/adam-davidson-european-finance.html?ref=magazine
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The best way to keep money in perspective is to have some. —Louis Rukeyser
"It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine" say the French as consumer confidence in May rose to the highest since Nov '10 as they welcome and get excited about new Pres Hollande. Also, the French 10 yr bond yield touched the lowest on record this morning. June consumer confidence in Germany held at 5.7, just .2 pts off the highest since Mar '11. To the euro bond debate which is now taking on greater rhetoric with those with high bond yields wanting them and those with low ones saying no way, ECB member...
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December 4th, 2011 at 11:16 am
Nice one…thx for posting, Barry! :-)
December 4th, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Hey, when again did Corsica become part of Italy? Have I missed a war or sale?
December 4th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
What a mish mash. All of Scandinavia is out, Estonia is in, Latts and Liths are out. Industrial Czech is out , rural Slovakia and Slovenia are in.
I’m shocked only 28% of Portuguese have completed HS, 29% of EU have completed college and 42% in Ireland. Ireland, the land of Saints and Scholars, is at least partly living up to it’s nickname. Free public education all the way for the country with the youngest population in Europe.
December 4th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
The Germans should bail out EU banks. The ECB does not have do it all.
How to discipline the borrowers?
How to force the lenders to find markets outside the EU for their excess production, or import more wine.
Germany is to the rest of the EU, as China to the US.
Except the others cannot inflate, nor collect tariffs.
When the others stop borrowing who buys the Germans’ stuff?
December 4th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
The only reason Ireland apparently makes a lot of pharmaceuticals is because of their 12.5% corporate tax rate and transfer pricing.
December 5th, 2011 at 6:16 am
Nice map. However, the author should repeat a class or two of the elementary school or buy a map of Europe. What he calls Slovakia is in fact Hungary…
December 5th, 2011 at 7:37 am
With maps labeling Hungary as Slovakia, it’s no wonder US commentators are getting so much wrong about Europe and the Eurozone…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EU-Slovakia.svg
December 5th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Educational and entertaining map, win! I don’t mind if its not spot on for the borders, it’s not a travel map. The message here is the Eurozone, and I think it’s an accurate [and awesome] illustration.