The Neuro

That's a New Euro, or perhaps a Northern Euro.  They're going to need one soon.

In "The Wreck of the Euro" (hey, that would make a good song), Walter Russell Mead points out:

Politicians in Europe thought they were living in a post-historical period in which mistakes didn’t really matter all that much.

But mistakes that involve lying to ourselves by diddling a currency always matter eventually.  It's very much like Richard Feynman's caution in a different context:

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

A currency has many functions, but its primary one is a credible promise.  Lying destroys its value, though the harm sometimes is delayed until enough people are disillusioned.

H/t Maggie's Farm.