The real thing: A tale of two product launches -- "A burning building with no exits': designing a euro inferno -- The French vice : gold, the euro and a peculiar taste for monetary discipline -- No end of a lesson : schools of thought collide in the Eurozone -- Ire and ice : two crises in a cruel sea -- A bullet dodged : How Gordon Brown, Ed Balls and the man in the white coat saved Britain from a euro nightmare -- The Sisyphus effect : Greece's tormented euro-odyssey -- The Italian job -- Kicking the can: The Eurozone's never ending crisis -- The end of the affair: Why the left is falling out of love with the euro.