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The parallels with Argentina are there. A broken banking system, an unsustainable debt, and the need to restore and enhance international competitiveness, but there are reasons to think that reintroduction of the drachma and devaluation would do less for Greece than devaluation did for Argentina. Greece is less open, it exports less. – Barry Eichengreen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
But there are reasons to think that reintroduction of the drachma and devaluation would do less for Greece than devaluation did for Argentina. Greece is less open, it exports less. – Barry Eichengreen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The only thing that I care about is not being humiliated by Schaeuble and the rest of them, i don't care if we go to the drachma or whatever, we support the prime minister whatever decision he makes, but now I feel a little bad, not with the prime minister but with Germany's stance. This misanthrope Schaeuble, I don't know what he's trying to achieve. – Panagiotis Trikokglou	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
With a return to the drachma, Greek business owners will have difficulty accessing capital, so maybe they sell their business to an international and sit out a difficult decade. There are many family-owned companies which will take this route. – Dimitris Paraskevas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If The Greeks does, in fact, exit the euro and resurrect the drachma, that currency would also likely be devalued, making The Greeks an even bigger travel bargain. – Gabe Saglie	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This feels like the last opportunity to do something. Things are getting really serious, we want to send a message about staying in the euro because if we go back to the drachma, things will be incredibly difficult. We don't need to get to that point. – Leron Shalit	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He made the city [Athens], great as it was when he took it, the greatest and richest of all cities, and grew to be superior in power to kings and tyrants. Some of these actually appointed him guardian of their sons, but he did not make his estate a single drachma greater than it was when his father left it to him. – Plutarch	added by anonymous 10 years ago

The parallels with Argentina are there. A broken banking system, an unsustainable debt, and the need to restore and enhance international competitiveness, but there are reasons to think that reintroduction of the drachma and devaluation would do less for Greece than devaluation did for Argentina. Greece is less open, it exports less.

– Barry Eichengreen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But there are reasons to think that reintroduction of the drachma and devaluation would do less for Greece than devaluation did for Argentina. Greece is less open, it exports less.

– Barry Eichengreen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The only thing that I care about is not being humiliated by Schaeuble and the rest of them, i don't care if we go to the drachma or whatever, we support the prime minister whatever decision he makes, but now I feel a little bad, not with the prime minister but with Germany's stance. This misanthrope Schaeuble, I don't know what he's trying to achieve.

– Panagiotis Trikokglou

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With a return to the drachma, Greek business owners will have difficulty accessing capital, so maybe they sell their business to an international and sit out a difficult decade. There are many family-owned companies which will take this route.

– Dimitris Paraskevas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If The Greeks does, in fact, exit the euro and resurrect the drachma, that currency would also likely be devalued, making The Greeks an even bigger travel bargain.

– Gabe Saglie

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This feels like the last opportunity to do something. Things are getting really serious, we want to send a message about staying in the euro because if we go back to the drachma, things will be incredibly difficult. We don't need to get to that point.

– Leron Shalit

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He made the city [Athens], great as it was when he took it, the greatest and richest of all cities, and grew to be superior in power to kings and tyrants. Some of these actually appointed him guardian of their sons, but he did not make his estate a single drachma greater than it was when his father left it to him.

– Plutarch

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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