Any hint that a weak country was about to leave would lead to runs on deposits, further weakening troubled banks.
If a small and economically weak country has the courage to subject its two largest banks, whose activities account for much of its GDP, to the bail-in mechanism, there is no reason why the same process cannot be applied in the United States.
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Rating agencies stated this week that a default in Greece or any other weak European Union country like Portugal, Ireland or Italy would cause them to no longer permit that debt to create other loans.
Japan has traditionally intervened to keep the yen weak to support the country's exporters, but investors briefly thought that the new government had reconsidered, and the dollar dropped below 89 yen.
Neither Argentines nor investors have any confidence in Fernando de la Rua, the country's weak and vacillating president.
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The weak euro has bolstered the country as the world's second-biggest exporter.
That might be politically appealing given concerns that Cyprus's banks are flush with Russian money deposited there to take advantage of the country's weak anti-money laundering rules.
In a country used to weak coalitions (the outgoing centre-left government led by Romano Prodi lasted less than two years) voters have given Mr Berlusconi's People of Freedom movement and its allies an unusually solid majority.
Normally a country would respond to a weakening of its currency by increasing exports, but in an economy ravaged by Dutch Disease there is little immediate ability to increase exports because the manufacturing sector has become so weak and withered and the country so dependent on imports.
Similarly, keeping weak life insurers alive helps the country's banks, which have lent large sums, often in the form of subordinated debt, to insurers.
But growth lost in London is not generally redistributed to the rest of the country, so a weak London economy means a less dynamic British economy, argues Mr McWilliams.
Demand in China is still weak, with product orders from that country declining 4 percent from the previous year.
Support for Wales to become an independent country outside the UK remained weak, rising from 7% last year to 9% this year.
More weak dollars are needed to sate the country's appetite for imports--for most citizens, this translates to higher prices at the gas pump.
Experts say that the military has been widely corrupted by violent and well-financed drug gangs - and because Guinea-Bissau is a small country, its institutions are weak.
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This is ironic: the whole point of Thailand's last democratic constitution, passed in 1997, was to free the country from the cycle of weak and unstable coalitions and frequent coups.
You have to run harder just to stay in the same place if your country's currency is weak and your wealth is tied up in land whose value is measured in dollars, as in this survey.
If investors are convinced that all bad debts in Spain's banking system have been revealed and if Spain's government shows it can raise the cash to recapitalise weak lenders, then fears about the country's solvency should recede.
There have been concerns that Russia's vast size, its remoteness from other countries and what is seen as a relatively weak transport system could make travelling around the country problematic.
In other news, reports Thursday said Indian demand for gold exchange traded funds ( ETFs) was at a record high in September, despite weak retail sales of gold jewelry in the country.
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MUMBAI--Maruti Suzuki (India) Ltd. will shut one of its factories that manufactures gasoline-run cars for a day on Saturday to reduce its stock pile as demand in the country's auto market remains weak.
But the FDP, like the Lib Dems in England, which became his adopted country in 1988, was small and weak, and not quite what he wanted.
Since the country's independence in 1956, successive weak governments in Sudan have used tribe-based militias to fight proxy wars.
"They have been widely corrupted by these violent and well-financed drug gangs and Guinea-Bissau is a very small country, its vulnerable, its institutions are weak, " Bruce Bagley, an expert on drug-trafficking at the University of Miami, told the BBC's Newsday programme.
As for Miss Megawati, she deserves credit for overseeing a restoration of relative calm and economic growth in Indonesia, but voters see her as a poor communicator and a weak administrator who has done little to rein in the country's rampant corruption.
But the U.S. typically has been weak in Winter Olympics staples like ski jumping and cross-country skiing.
In Nepal, a country known for legislative deadlock, corruption allegations and weak infrastructure, effective change will be slow.
Gross domestic product may be rising smartly for now, but the future looks gray--in the past few months, Polish output growth has come in below expectations, while the country's purchasing managers index has also been weak over recent months.
The property market in Scotland has been weak since 2009, but Edinburgh has been the most resilient in the country.
Although Italy had problems, including a revival of the Mafia and a merry-go-round of weak governments, 50 years of rapid growth have made it a rich country.
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