As each day goes by, global policy makers are becoming increasingly hostage to markets. In turn, they try to impress with more bold and creative measures that lack credibility as market skepticism overwhelms. Markets react negatively, that adversely affects economies as credit conditions tighten. The result is that a financial domino effect turns into an economic domino effect. Since politicians react with even more measures, those provoke protests on the street, and an economic domino effect becomes a political domino effect. Domino effects work through ‘channels of contagion’ such as currency borrowing, trade balances, the level of outstanding government debt, and the financial state of the domestic banking system. Trade links strengthen contagion in areas with high intra-trade, economic and political commonalities. These links can cause contamination to countries with broadly similar economic and political conditions. Because of globalization, the channels of contagion do not just exist in the Euro-zone but basically everywhere. The linkage of debt, trade, economy and politics sets in motion spillover effects global central banks respond to. That creates an inherent momentum behind positive and negative domino effects that empowers the kind of “risk on”, “risk off” reactions markets express every day. Financial domino effects eventually subside when a ‘corner solution’ is reached. Given the amount of debt deleveraging in many countries, such solution is either debt restructuring or debt monetization. Like a domino field, the toppling of stones at some point does end.