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The book is called The Euro, How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe, and Joe Stiglitz, everybody knows Joe from Columbia University winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics.

It is his latest work.

You're starting to do publicity for this.

The reviews are out.

And I think a lot of people get the concept of the book wrong. You don't say junk the euro. You say the euro can

and should be saved, but it has fundamental design flaws that need to be addressed.

You got it.

Yeah, you got it.

All right, I passed your class year.

And I am a little surprised that some of the reviewers didn't

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