In the run-up to default, Greek government negotiators kept hoping they could pull to an inside straight, the hardest hand in poker to nab.

The River Styx has turned into a set of dangerous rapids Greece, and some part of the developed world, must contend with. But maybe that makes little difference at this point.

When the euro began to tumble earlier today on the news out of Greece, the Swiss thought and thought as euro-investors streamed into the franc. Then the Swiss National Bank sold its own currency to make it less attractive as a haven.