Detlev Schlichter on the EuroZone Crisis

Delivered on January 26th, 2012, at an Adam Smith Institute event. Detlev S. Schlichter is an author and Austrian School Economist. His first book Paper Money Collapse -- The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown was published by John Wiley & Sons in September 2011. Mr. Schlichter has appeared as a commentator on television and radio (Sky News, Reuters TV) and his editorials have been published by The Wall Street Journal, TheStreet.com and mises.org. He is a senior fellow at the Cobden Centre, London, a free-market think tank devoted to issues of money and banking.

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