italy economy

Doomed. Doomed. Doomed. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/business/in-europe-anxious-market-shifts-focus-to-italy.html?hp Catastrophic tipping point approaching. Italy is a rapidly aging country with a low birth rate, so somebody please tell me how their debt situation is ever going to get...

I am a little surprised there's not a current thread about the status of the euro or any transnational currency union in the wake of uncertainty first in Greece and now in Ireland. Here's a pessimistic view of the situation in Ireland...