Introduction -- ch. 1. Two visions for Europe -- ch. 2. The dynamics of fiat money -- ch. 3. The road toward the euro -- ch. 4. Why high inflation countries wanted the euro -- ch. 5. Why Germany gave up the deutschmark -- ch. 6. The money monopoly of the ECB -- ch. 7. Differences in the money creation of the Fed and the ECB -- ch. 8. The EMU as a self-destroying system -- ch. 9. The EMU as a conflict-aggregating system -- ch. 10. The ride toward collapse -- ch. 11. The future of the euro -- Conclusion.