DSK would never have made that mistake but then, he's got other problems (and I'm not talking about his New York maid problems)...

Next year will be interesting indeed, suspect a lot of movement in advance of elections, as economists on left (well, our left) and right (borrowing heavily from Front de Gauche economists, this is probably woth a diary) both see the Euro for what it is, a hard shackle against growth, stablity and social equality around all of the EU save a couple of countries in the center (and I can only think of three or four...DE, NL, AT and LU).

If France detaches as well from the interested center of the Eurozone...well, then all things become possible.  

I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from them Eugene Debs