Archive - Dec 19, 2011 - Story

On a day when data confirms Spanish bad loans creeping up to recent highs and deposits continuing to stream out of the periphery, Boston Consulting Group has released an excellent treatise on the "What Next? Where Next?" perspective of the impact of collateral damage in and out of the Eurozone. The critical questions for most market watchers and prognosticators remain, how likely is an exit, and what would be the implications for 'leaver' and 'left behind'? BCG offers an at-a-glance chart of the economic, social, and market expectations for the ins-and-outs and notes, in less-than-Deutsche-Bank-like mutually assured destruction language, the cost of leaving the Euro varying from EUR3,500 to 11,500 depending on weak or strong exiting country per person per year. No matter what, an exit would impact the world economy considerably and BCG strongly suggests corporate management consider a Euro-zone breakup as a possible scenario for next year, along with a muddle-through, a Japanese deflation-like evolution, or a significant inflation possibility.