If you had spare money right now - which I do, in advance of using it to build a house - what would you do with it? For "safety"? Just wondering, as ours has been safe so far, but we haven't got any interest from it (again, that's OK but with inflation the value of it is going down).

End of the Euro in Greece? Wouldn't that lead to crazy inflation? 1,000,000 drachmae for a loaf of bread? Wouldn't this lead to protests / riots?

Protest against corrupt politicians. In Italy now we accept that they are corrupt and steals, no wonder about this, and not resign no matter what scandal are involved. People says anyone do anything and if we had them we will too. Protest won´t change the fact that the crisis is now here, but at least it should continue to stumble the fact that they continue to tax the normal people and this month they have bought all the blue cars new (representation cars don´t know if is the right name in English)

@NickBen The notice was on yahoo..

http://it.finance.yahoo.com/notizie/la-fine-delleuro-4-mosse-160006447--finance.html?nc

US taxes are minor than European, in fact some (also small) companies in EU pretend to have its head office in USA or UK.

They try to innoculate the masses from critical daily thinking, and turn us into "Yahoo" 's...

Agree, where are young people protests? Why are we sleeping? Too much naked glamorous life on TV?

Read the same on an Italian site that reports an article of Paul Krugman.

1. It suppose that Greece can go out from Euro already next month.

2. Withdrawals of mass in Spanish and Italian banks, depositors seeking to transfer their money in Germany

3. EU could:

• Perhaps it would be introduced controls and limits on money transfers and cash withdrawals abroad.
• Alternatively, or concurrently, the European Central Bank will start to make big loans to banks to prevent their collapse.
• Germany has a choice. Accept that Italy and Spain receive large amounts of money borrowed by the ECB. Drastically change approach: to give hope to these countries, mainly to Spain, they must be given the opportunity to borrow at low interest rates and have a higher rate of inflation to adjust prices. Or ...
• End of the Euro. And we are talking about months, not years..