EU calls emergency meeting as debt crisis stalks Italy

[The Minsky Moment]

How does a debt crisis "stalk" a country anyway?  What a crappy metaphor.  Italy is a big land mass sticking out into the Med.  You don't have to be Orion the Hunter to track it down.

[Ed Anger]

How does a debt crisis "stalk" a country anyway?  What a crappy metaphor.  Italy is a big land mass sticking out into the Med.  You don't have to be Orion the Hunter to track it down.

It is a big boot, so Mart might stalk it.

[Richard Hakluyt]

With titans like Herman Van Rompuy and his team of EU officials on the case I'm sure that Europe has nothing to fear 

[Agelastus]

How does a debt crisis "stalk" a country anyway?  What a crappy metaphor.  Italy is a big land mass sticking out into the Med.  You don't have to be Orion the Hunter to track it down.

Don't forget it's pretending not to be a Mediterranean economy; there's absolutely no similarity between Italy and Portugal/Spain/Greece...no sir, none at all.

[jimmy olsen]

How does a debt crisis "stalk" a country anyway?  What a crappy metaphor.  Italy is a big land mass sticking out into the Med.  You don't have to be Orion the Hunter to track it down.

It is a big boot, so Mart might stalk it.

Brilliant!

[Martinus]

How does a debt crisis "stalk" a country anyway?  What a crappy metaphor.  Italy is a big land mass sticking out into the Med.  You don't have to be Orion the Hunter to track it down.

It is a big boot, so Mart might stalk it.

Brilliant!

You are a fucking cretin. Perhaps you should respond instead to one of the numerous other posts that call you a total idiot.

[Habbaku]

  Martinus calling someone else a cretin.

[Razgovory]

Martinus calling someone else a cretin.

Cretinism is probably common where Marty comes from.  Not so much in the US.

[Jacob]

Martinus calling someone else a cretin.

It is funny, yes, but in this case it's also accurate.

[Berkut]

Ah, so Italy going down will take the whole world with it.  Knew we shouldn't have trusted those fucking Dagos with money. 

I think it was Littlefinger.

[The Larch]

Ah, so Italy going down will take the whole world with it.  Knew we shouldn't have trusted those fucking Dagos with money. 

I think it was Littlefinger.

Is there anything that man can't do?

How does a debt crisis "stalk" a country anyway?  What a crappy metaphor.  Italy is a big land mass sticking out into the Med.  You don't have to be Orion the Hunter to track it down.

Don't forget it's pretending not to be a Mediterranean economy; there's absolutely no similarity between Italy and Portugal/Spain/Greece...no sir, none at all.

What do you mean? The economies of those four countries aren't exactly the same, even if they have common problems.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I don't think the Eurozone is going to get anywhere until it is recognised that Germany is, in some ways, the worst offender.

Well, that may be too harsh, substitute "primary cause" for "worst offender" 

[mongers]

Moody's have now reduced Irish debt to junk bond status.