Ben Kramer-Miller writes at Seeking Alpha:

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Over the past several years, most of the attention of the eurozone debt crisis has been focused on the economic struggles of Greece, Spain and Portugal and without a doubt things will continue to get even worse in those nations.

However, the predictions have been that in 2014 and 2015, Italy and France will start to take center stage in eurozone debt crisis. France has the fifth largest economy on the planet, and Italy has the 9th largest economy on the planet, and at this point both of those economies are rapidly contracting.

John Tamny, of Forbes magazine has written a recent article in which he takes Austrian economist David Gordon to task for not being Misesian enough in a book review of Money by Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames.

The story of the destruction of the German mark during the hyper-inflation of Weimar Germany from 1919 to its horrific peak in November 1923 is usually dismissed as a bizarre anomaly in the economic history of the twentieth century. But no episode better illustrates the dire consequences of unsound money or makes a more devastating, real-life case against fiat-currency: where there is no restraint, monetary death will follow.