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Re:Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis by sievebrain on Monday July 11, 2016 @11:38AM (#12071754)
That is a fairly stunning graph. Thanks for the data.

One question that has always played on my mind is why these countries find it so much easier to lower their costs via playing games with the currency (e.g. printing more to devalue) than simply lowering prices. Italy could have kept its competitive advantage by simply lowering its wages and export prices, much as Germany has done, but never did.

Re:Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis by hx87 on Monday July 11, 2016 @12:16PM (#12072093)
Lowering wages and prices only works if debt is denominated in the same currency. Otherwise internal devaluation just makes debts harder to pay off.