. >> rose: but puturope in the context of this, though. how could the sovereign debt crisis affect the rest of us? >> the problem is i don't know. i... i don't know... i don't know what's goi to happen. i know 17 countries that join the european monetary union gave up the right to print their own money. that was a huge, huge decision. i hope the united states never does it. it changes the game... >>ose: to be in control of your own finances, in fact. >> yeah. and they linked themselves. they gave each other their credit cards and said let's all go out. and some behaved better than others. >> rose: should they dismantle the euro zone? >> i mean, it's very complicated. you have to decide one or two things. you've either got to decide that these members are actually going to get their act together, the ones that have troubles in a very major way because they need lots of money. they have to refund their old obligations all the time. so nobody has to lend money count-to-country a, b, or c. the united states, nobody lends money in thenited stat