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When thinking about France, it’s important to keep in mind two things. First, as far as the ECB is concerned, the inmates are running the asylum. The Euro zone’s high-debt countries have successfully crafted a narrative whereby any kind of sovereign default is seen as an existential threat to the Euro, a shift that began with Draghi’s “whatever it takes” speech in 2012. That’s obviously nonsense. There’s no…