So – We saw yesterday that things are not as rosy in Euro land as people thought, I even wrote about it too, but it gets a bit worse. As it happens the German Economy shrank by again the first quarter of 2009 by 3.8% (6.7% for the year) which is the largest decline since the two Germany’s, East and West, were unified in 1990. What this says is that things are still getting worse. To top off that bad news, a German Finance official made a comment about the stability of German banks. He was quoted as saying “the toxic assets will blow up like a grenade” although later he denied saying that --- one listen to the audio that was played on the radio (BBC, of course) confirms that he did not say that. What he did say was “…the bad assets that the banks have on hand are liable to explode like a grenade if it is not addressed in a more aggressive manner.” Sounds the same to me.