Rumours of a split gained currency when Hurley went to the Cannes Film Festival alone, for the first time in six years.
After two years of debate and acrimony, bitcoin might finally be about to implement a code change that would split the currency in two, with meaningful investments on both sides.
Save Our Money, an anti-euro broadside by Hans-Olaf Henkel, the former boss of the German equivalent of the CBI, argues for splitting the currency north and south, strong and weak.
People talk of splitting the currency into a "neuro" for Germanic budget hawks and other northerners, and "souros" for the flibbertigibbets down south.It is not just the EU as a whole.
Bitcoin and Ethereum surged in recent months, but were down this week on concerns about a currency split. .
In the IMF's "Article IV" assessment of China, published on July 22nd, officials were split over whether the currency was "substantially undervalued".
The events of the weekend have demonstrated the deep splits in the single currency bloc.
The anti-single currency movement is split between at least 10 groups.
The most recent opinion poll showed Sweden evenly split, with 43percentt for the currency, 43 percent against and 14percentt undecided.
"I have never been advocating a breakup of the euro zone," said Martin Taylor, former chief executive of Barclays bank, who caused a stir earlier this year with a proposal— "half in jest" — to split the euro into two currency zones, with one for the north and for the south.
