by Calculated Risk on 2/09/2010 06:56:00 PM

Note: The Census Bureau will release the Trade Balance report tomorrow as scheduled, but Retail Sales (January) and the Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales (December) will be delayed until Friday due to inclement weather.

On Greece from the Financial Times: Berlin looks to build Greek ‘firewall’

"We’re thinking about what we should do if the crisis spills from Greece into other euro countries. So it’s more about finding firewalls, containing the problem, than principally about helping the Greeks.” [A German government official] added there were ”no concrete plans” as yet.
excerpted with permission

And from The Times: Storm over bailout of Greece, EU's most ailing economy

And from Professor Krugman, a nice explanation with charts: Anatomy of a Euromess