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Edit: tl/dr - 2008 all over again with a slightly different set of bad actors.
Yes, question is whether the UK will drag the rest of the Eurozone down with it - I suspect that we'll be isolated with ruthless efficiency, and then a very puzzled team from the IMF are going to conclude that we've already privatised everything of value, so we'll have to mortgage the bedrock of the UK to anchor the help we need.
i.e. it will be the perfect time to be pick up a 1972 "oil-flap" 911 and a country pile for pennies.
Or die from diseases exclusive to those eating rats.
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Couple of things.
The eurozone is already in a fairly bad way so doesn't really need the UK to drag it down. They have sufficient problems as it is.
I think it's a fair bet that a number of asset classes will depreciate by material amounts. Which ones, by how much and when, are the subjects on which fortunes are made and lost. I wish I knew so I could make my fortune.
ChasnotRobert
There are significant issues.
We are currently "enjoying" an unprecedentedly long period of uninterrupted growth.
Under normal circumstances, one would expect this to be accompanied by balancing of the books (ie paying down debt), and gently rising interest rates to control the supply of money.
Instead, we have government debt at a post war high, and interest rates at historically low levels. Meaning the room to manoeuvre is severely limited.
On the back of this we have cheap money fuelling bubbles. Companies which have never made a profit and quite possibly never will, benefit from billions of £ of venture capital investment, and at the same time put out of business previously viable enterprises.
Where will this all end?
Who knows. But my bet is that it isn't going to be pretty, and history tells us that the the people who caused the problem rarely carry the can.
Edit: tl/dr - 2008 all over again with a slightly different set of bad actors.