Euro Crisis Contagion Reaching Epidemic Proportion      • The US
equity markets have pretty clearly said they won't care about
this stuff until it proves the damage it can do to the US
economy.      • It will be at least a decade before the damage
can be repaired. The Euro is finished. The core members, the so-
called "Lutheran states" should quickly band together and push
out the others. Otherwise, they'll go down with the ship. We
have a tragedy in the making, a slow motion train wreck.      •
Austria is no "Lutheran" state but catholic...      • I know
this seems like a smart arsed comment, but I have been saying
from day one of the euro idea in January 1999 that this could
never ever work in the long term. It started off with “fixed”
exchange rates between member countries currencies. These fixed
exchange rates were allowed to float relative to each other
within limits. Then in January 2002 the euro coinage, and notes
were introduced, which by their introduction took away this
float mechanism. This meant t