2008-01-10blogspot.com

'Perhaps Asians were shocked to learn that German, French and Dutch banks had gorged on sub-prime debt, or perhaps they began to take a closer look at Europe's fertility rate and vanishing youth, or woke up to the deflating property bubble in Spain. Yes, the euro reached record highs in the autumn, but this was driven by hot money flows. Such fickle finance will drain away as soon as the ECB hints at rate cuts. So are the new powers turning to gold instead, mistrusting the euro as much as the dollar?'



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