Sunday, October 23, 2011

It’s All Connected: An Overview of the Euro Crisis

by Bill Marsh

New York Times
October 22, 2011

The global financial system is highly interconnected. So problems in one part of the world can reverberate almost everywhere else — risking a cascade of default, contagion, contracting credit and collapsing economic activity. Exhibit A now is Europe.

European Union leaders are meeting this week to at last deal with a debt crisis rattling investors worldwide who once thought leading to euro zone countries was virtually risk-free. The graphic here helps you see the intertwined complexities.

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