The thinking is relatively unsophisticated and incoherent.

Cartel operators, especially unsophisticated ones, may make public statements that betray cartel activity.

They can raise up to a million dollars from an unlimited number of unaccredited, unsophisticated investors everyday people, heaven forbid and they can share those returns over time again, whatever terms they set.

Until then, decoupling arguments, whether applied to relations between Europe and America or Europe s financial sector and the rest of the economy, should be seen as having a single purpose to deny the very real threats to the continued expansion of the European economy. Some of this, no doubt, is wishful thinking on the part of economically unsophisticated people.