Thanks for the letters and it was nice to meet you recently at the Georgia Street gathering. I regularly listen to BBC Newshour hosted by Claire Bolderson. It comes weekdays at 9AM via WUOM Public Radio in Ann Arbor. The fates of the "PIGS" [Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain] economies is a long running subject. It seems Spain is the only one yet to hold out the hat, so hopefully the end of the financial crises are in sight.

Some such as The ascent of money: a financial history of the world by Niall Ferguson trace the start of the whole fiasco to a trail that runs through Detroit where the first dominoes of the breakdown fall.
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