Grécia: A nova Argentina?

No dia em que uma delegação do FMI chega a Atenas, a Grécia volta a ser o centro das atenções do mundo financeiro pelas piores razões. Este artigo do Financial Times é deveras interessante:

This experience informs me that, much like Argentina a decade ago, Greece is approaching the final stages of its currency arrangement. There is every prospect that within two to three years, after much official money is thrown its way, Greece's euro membership will end with a bang.

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After failing to meet the criteria for euro membership at the currency's 1999 launch, a chronically profligate Greece managed to qualify in January 2001 by engaging in creative budget accounting. Going an important step further than Argentina, Greece abandoned its currency in favour of the euro. It joined a club whose very founding envisions no exit option for any of its member countries.