Thread: coolhand's Account Talk

Originally Posted by coolhand

Italy, Europe, and Red Brigade terror

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance...rigade-terror/

Italy's crisis deepens on eurozone slump, bail-out doubts

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...ut-doubts.html

I guess the wife and I will have to rethink that Italy trip we were looking at.

My mother just returned from the Tuscany area about a month ago. She flew over for some kind of cooking school tour where she learned how to make various Italian dishes from different chefs at several towns.

Looks like she had good timing.

Originally Posted by nasa1974

I guess the wife and I will have to rethink that Italy trip we were looking at.

Originally Posted by coolhand

My mother just returned from the Tuscany area about a month ago. She flew over for some kind of cooking school tour where she learned how to make various Italian dishes from different chefs at several towns.

Looks like she had good timing.

About 3 years ago we saw a tour through Traflagar Tours that took you all around Italy. So we have been setting aside a little here and there. Not that we think it wouldn't be safe but with all the other stuff going on right now another year or two won't make that much of a difference and it will allow us to put some more money away.

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Looking bleak for Italy.

It does look bleak. Unfortunately it carries risk for the global market as well. And there's no shortage of other countries waiting in the wings to have their uh-oh moment either.

This will probably continue to play out into 2012, but it can't go on forever before some major changes take place in the EU as a whole.

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