--- title: Euro: How Splitting It Will Save It description: Splitting the euro to save it, putting pork back into Congress, better learning through peer pressure and more. canonical: https://time.com/3952647/split-euro-to-save-it/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-10T16:01:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:33.959Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Splitting the Euro Will Save It og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3952647/split-euro-to-save-it/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Splitting the Euro Will Save It twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Splitting the Euro Will Save It by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 10, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 10, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**It’s time to split the euro in two.**](http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/01/opinions/ghitis-greece-euro-split/index.html) By Frida Ghitis at CNN **2\.** [**Can we fix our broken Congress by bringing back earmarks?**](http://www.vox.com/2015/6/30/8864869/earmarks-pork-congress) By Jonathan Allen in Vox **3\.** [**When peer pressure is a good thing.**](http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/07/06/when-peer-pressure-is-a-good-thing/ideas/nexus/) By Philip Hoy in Zócalo Public Square **4\.** [**You can’t monetize a digital community.**](http://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-networks/rachelhappe/2015-07-09/parable-reddit-or-how-traditional-business-models-fail) By Rachel Happe in Social Media Today **5\.** [**How to build better passwords.**](http://www.propublica.org/article/privacy-tools-how-to-build-better-passwords) By Julia Angwin in ProPublica  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3952647/split-euro-to-save-it/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3952647/split-euro-to-save-it/"},"headline":"How Splitting the Euro Will Save It","datePublished":"2015-07-10T16:01:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:33.959Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3952647/split-euro-to-save-it/","keywords":["Innovation","Congress","reddit","euro","Password"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3952647/split-euro-to-save-it/","name":"How Splitting the Euro Will Save It"}}]}] ```