For backers in shares, a monetary emergency, like that that has been bedeviling the EU Dollar area for most of the present year, is something that should be feared. What will happen to your stock ( or your unit trust investments for what it’s worth ) when even entire nations, like Greece and Eire , are stunning under the load of a debt crisis which has still to play itself out? Only last week we saw the Irish executive injecting more than six bn. into Anglo Irish Bank as it tried to keep the Irish banking sector solvent, while at the very same time Spain has had its world debt revised downward by Moody’s, one of the worldwide agencies which rate gigantic borrowers like states and banks on their credit rating.