How Will Toledo Vote?

摘要

Somewhere In Toledo There Is A middle-class family that holds Barack Obama's political fate in its hands. Toledo, Spain, that is. Europe's common currency is vaporizing fast along its southern periphery just months before the U.S. election, and the reactions of everyday Europeans to their predicament could determine the next U.S. President. The last big corporations willing to park their money overnight in Spain, Greece and Italy pulled out a year ago. Six months after that, the last big private investors fled with their cash. Now the shaky banking systems of those countries survive thanks largely to everyday depositors' keeping the faith that their life savings won't suddenly be transformed from German-backed euros into pesetas, drachmas or lire or be wiped out completely in a national bank failure. A bank run that starts in Spain won't end there.