French revolution 2.0 © fintag

News comments:
Are you ready?

French revolution 2.0 gets under way on 7th December 2011 with its unlikely leader Eric Cantona. France is not part of the PIIGS (I mean what anagram do you get with the inclusion of an F?) but is increasingly looking like it soon will.

With the IMF sniffing around some of France's SIVs (remember these off balance sheet structures so loved pre Lehman collapse?) to ensure they are included in France's total debt numbers, France also faces a mass Northern Rock style run on the banks as aggrieved Frenchies withdraw all their cash from the banks.

No guns, no violence, no wikileaks, just old fashioned inconvenience.

Today's shorts:
Cantona's Short Long Johns (guardian)
Rock 'n' Rolet (independent)

Today's longs:
Cantona's Long Shorts (telegraph)

Gossip:
EU to build Euro printing plants in France.