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Why Brexit Will Fail

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Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock (actually, more likeĀ a very large column of rocks), you know that the big “Brexit” vote is this Thursday, and we’ll have results here in the U.S. late on Thursday or in the very early Friday hours.

I have one very simple, whiny reason why I’m sure it’s going to fail: because nothing cool every happens anymore. Not ever.

Remember all the stink that ZeroHedge made about the “Grexit”? Frankly, I don’t even remember how that turned out, although I vaguely remember that Greece, did, in fact, vote to ditch Europe, but within days it didn’t make any difference. Suffice it to say, the entire Greek hoo-ha was a tempest in a teapot, and that’s probably overstating it.

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