Many of you are, or will be, practitioners in the financial services industry – perhaps serving retail clients – and in that capacity I hope you will make the promotion of financial and economic education a part of your mission as  1  RISE is Redefining Investment Strategy Education. For more information, see www.udayton.edu/business/rise.
Economic governance in the euro area  But the crisis has shown us that this should be no reason for any complacency in the euro area. Persistent losses in competitiveness on the part of individual members in a currency union lead to a build-up of external and internal imbalances. When these unravel, the cost for the affected economies can be large.