"Is the captain still on board?"

"What captain?"

On January 13, Standard & Poor's downgraded the debt rating of several eurozone countries in the euro area, January 13. On the same days the Costa Concordia, a luxury cruise liner, ran aground on the Italian island of Giglio, Tuscany, causing 11 deaths.

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