Via FT Alphaville, an interesting, if totally bizarre, rumour of plans for Germany to ditch the Euro this weekend and replace it with the mighty Deutsche Mark :

Secondly, there’s a truly bizarre rumour doing the rounds that German officials have already prepared for a “plan B” contingency involving the return of the Deutsche Mark as soon as this weekend.

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we should state at the outset that this comes from a COMPLETELY dubious and questionable source – namely a posting by a supposed Deutsche Bank employee on a  whacky conspiracy website.

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The post reads as follows:

I’m working at the Deutsche Bank in Germany. Today we delivered 1 container with new Deutsche Mark notes and new coins. I will present a photo from the new banknotes tomorrow morning. The curencychange will be the night from Saturday to Sunday 5/16/2010. On Friday, 19.00 GMT Angela Merkel the germany chancelor, will speach to the german nation.

FT goes on to state that some of the other stories where the post can be found include Eisenhower meeting aliens and Saturn losing it’s rings so you can be pretty sure it’s complete nonsense but, on the slightest off chance it does happen, you know where you read it!