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On a finance panel at The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas held on Nantucket, Massachusetts in October, Larry Summers tackled the question of whether teutonic monetary virtue or monetary unity would win out if the two came to a head. Summers says he would bet on the EU staying together.

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