Schaeuble Tells Lew He’d Gladly Swap Greece for Puerto Rico
Wolfgang Schaeuble, Germany's finance minister, speaks as he addresses a Deutsche Bundesbank conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, July 9, 2015.
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Wolfgang Schaeuble, the German finance minister who’s taking a hard line on Greece’s debt woes, says he’d gladly swap burdens with his American counterpart.
“I offered my friend Jack Lew these days that we could take Puerto Rico into the euro zone if the U.S. were willing to take Greece into the dollar union,” Schaeuble said at an event in Frankfurt Thursday. Lew, the U.S. Treasury secretary, “thought that was a joke,” Schaeuble said.