Contagion fears have rattled the markets today with everyone worried about the crisis spreading to Italy. The reason why investors are so nervous today is because the Italian economy and its total amount of debt outstanding far exceeds that of Greece. The following chart shows the total amount of foreign claims on [...]

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I really like the post on Barry Ritholtz’s blog The Big Picture , so hopefully he doesn’t mind that I republish it
BRIC vs PIGS
Posted by Barry Ritholtz on Wednesday, July 09, 2008 | 09:15 AM
I was at a lunch recently with about 10 people. One of the participants was an analyst from Portugal — [...]

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