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Wall Street's high-stakes love affair with Europe continues

Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley among the Wall Street giants that have continued to buy up bonds in debt-laden Italy and France. Hopefully these risky moves pay off. Because Wall Street never makes bad decisions.

By Joshua M. Brown, Guest blogger

Changing $50 billion!

Your favorite insolvent-but-for-the-grace-of-god-and-the-taxpayer banks are still in the game, player.聽 Don't you worry about that...

From Fortune:

Maybe these bets are sound ones? Maybe (hopefully) Europe can stay together through a combination of bailouts, treaty rewrites and poetic speechifying, in which case these bond holdings may pay off handsomely for the US banks.

And so what if they don't - write 'em off and play a different game!聽 It's not like any of this is real money we're talking about, just blips on a computer screen.