It's the Economy, Dummkopf
www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/09/europe-201109
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With Greece and Ireland in economic shreds, while Portugal, Spain, and perhaps even Italy head south, only one nation can save Europe from financial Armageddon: a highly reluctant Germany. The ironieslike the fact that bankers from Dsseldorf were the ultimate patsies in Wall Streets con gamepile up quickly as Michael Lewis investigates German attitudes toward money, excrement, and the countrys Nazi past, all of which help explain its peculiar new status.