When Foreign Currencies are Tied Together

All that talk in class the other day about how currencies that were linked by the Gold Standard and what problems that created made me think about our currencies today. This story from NPR's planet Money is really interesting because it talks about the problems of dismantling some of the ties that bind countries that use the Euro. Here's the link: http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=2&prgDate=11-10-2011

(It's the second story!)