>>garicano: in spain the very biggest banks are very safe - santander bbva and la caixa - the fact that the largest part of the financial sector are healthy by everybody's accounting, even the most critical eyes would agree on that - means that we are not going to have a very big financial crisis...yes, we have similar problems but at a much smaller level that i don't think we will be next. >>reporter: a more likely outcome and in many ways a more challenging one for the country itself, isthe real possibility of a lost decade. >>ekaizer: what i see is not good. i see stagnation, long period of stagnation. i see a japanese labyrinth besides...with a very, very impoverished economy and a very peripheral position in europe. >>suarez: i'm optimistic about spain. i would say yes, in the long-term, because we have built the country in the 70s and in the 80s in a very bad situation. so i think we can do it again...but i think it's going to take...i don't know, almost a decade. >>reporter: the challenges ahead are huge but the country has returned from similar if not quite so severe situations