Belgium, Dexia and beyond...

Please read the posting linked here for further all the gruesome details. Note also that Italy is also now trying to convince its citizens to buy its bonds! Wow and waiving commission! (1403 GMT Update WSJ on Belgium bond sale today read here).

Scene at the Place de l’Hôtel de Ville in Brussels in September 1830, on occasion of the Belgian revolution (painting by Gustave Wappers). It was all for nothing, you're going to be submerged in the EUSSR now.

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