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the reality of the debt overhang ensures that someone has to pay. the only question is who, and to what extent.

The poor is the default answer right now, and it's certainly the one pushed by markets (for which people and society  are a cost and nothing else).

Germany does not ask that the cost be borne by the poor, it only asks that it be borne.

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by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue May 18th, 2010 at 07:30:10 AM EST
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There is a perfectly fine way to ensure that it is borne by the wealthy:

It's called strategic sovereign default.

But that's not what Germany is calling for.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue May 18th, 2010 at 07:54:51 AM EST
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are they excluding it?

I think the Spanish and French are more worried about what a sovereign default would mean for the cost of their own debt...

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by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue May 18th, 2010 at 08:57:41 AM EST
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