That Wolfgang Schaeuble, he’s such a jokester. The German finance minister took time out of his busy day of applying the boot of pressure to the economic throat of the Greek economy to tell U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew that he would trade Greece for Puerto Rico.
Trade Puerto Rico for Greece: Another deal that benefits Germany
“I offered my friend Jack Lew these days that we could take Puerto Rico into the euro zone if the U.S. were willing to take Greece into the dollar union,” Schaeuble was quoted as saying at an event in Frankfurt Thursday. Lew, the U.S. Treasury secretary, “thought that was a joke,” he was quoted as saying/joking in a Bloomberg report.
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