No! And to an A-Level (or Matura) economist it should be immediately clear why not. Why can’t you compare stock market value with GDP? Think this through before you read this.

An excellent article which clearly explains the core of the euro problem.

When it was created in 1999, there was a fatal flaw. While governments shared a single currency, they continued to have their own separate bond markets.

Read the article and find out more.