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Weakest EU Nations Trying Out a New Look

05/04/10 Stockholm, Sweden – Greece may have been the first caught out in the cold… and wearing the skimpiest outfit… but a range of countries on the periphery of the European Union are looking more than a little threadbare.

If the rest of the troubled nations find themselves also in need of a new pair of shoes there may be no more handouts left to give. Perhaps the markets will get a chance to sort out the matter.

This cartoon came to our attention by way of Jesse Felder’s blog.

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Rocky Vega is publisher of The Daily Reckoning. Previously, he was founding publisher of UrbanTurf and RFID Update, which he operated from Brazil, Chile, and Puerto Rico, and associate publisher of FierceFinance. He specialized in direct marketing at MBI, facilitated MIT Sloan School of Management programs, and has been featured on CBS. Vega graduated with honors from Harvard University, where he was on the board of Let’s Go Publications and directed business programs involving McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and Harvard Business School faculty. He is also enrolled at the Stockholm School of Economics.

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