The weakest links in the EuroZone have been Greece, Spain and Portugal. We all know how the old adage goes. In this case we ought to think of the situation not as a chain but as, well a chain is really a good metaphor. Let us use it. I was going to use soil erosion or crop rotation, but a chain just makes sense.
Picture a long chain, I was going to make a pictorial representation, for help, but this isn't a school assignment and I have faith in my readers. Again, picture a chain made up of all the countries in the EuroZone ( Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain). The larger economies, the German and French, support the weaker ones...
That isn't how the chain metaphor works.
Here we go, let's use a hole at, say, a beech, no a beach. Yeah a beach. I thought that the whole chain thing would have worked out, but it didn't, so now I'm winging it. O.K. Remember when you dug a hole at the beach and it was time to go and your Mother told you to fill in the hole before you left. You said something like,
'Mom I'm just going to let the water wash it full.'
The only problem is that you dug your hole on the picnic grounds and transported all the dirt into the lake. You tried to fill it up with paper plates and leftovers but your mom wasn't buying it. Then you put all the garbage back in the trash can and said,
'O.K. Mom how about some dirt?',
She said,
'I don't have any, ask your Father'
So you ask your father and he says,
'I can't really give you any soil,' he's a bit snooty, 'but I can work with your sister Angela and your brother Dom at the County Soil Dispensary Foundation and you are going to have to promise them that all the gopher holes that we see are also plugged up before we give you their hard earned soil.'

Now you think the gophers are going to fill up all of their gopher holes, but what happens? They go on strike and you have to teargas them to fill in the holes. Finally you get about five eights of the dirt required to fill the hole that you dug. Now Mom is getting really fed up with all of this. You start to plead your case and mom finally blows her lid and grounds you for two months. Thats right, no entitlement programs (allowance) until you work off your debt (chores).
All the while the twins have been digging their own holes, and big Bro and Sis are trying to keep them from also dumping it in to the lake.
Does that make it clearer? I thought so. Just to make sure, here is a list of the cast:
Mom: International Speculators and Markets
Dad: The European Central Bank
Sis Angela: Germany (Angela Merkel)
Bro Dom: International Monetary Fund (Dominique Strauss-Kahn)
Gophers: Grecians
The Twins: Spain and Portugal
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