Europe will turn into a German empire (Soros, Salmon, et al)

Link. That should concentrate minds. If, that is, they could possibly be any more concentrated.

“This is, in a nutshell, the bet I have with Joe Weisenthal. He, like Soros, says that Europe — including Greece — will become a German empire, where the Germans reluctantly dole out a stream of transfer payments to a resentful periphery. I’m taking the other side of that bet, because I think it’s politically impossible, in a union of democratic nations.”