The government devised a plan to levy a 10 percent tax of all citizens’ savings in order to bail out the struggling nation. This ill-advised plan sparked panic across the globe …
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An Infinite Amount of Money – Et Tu, Italy?
Too many in power just don’t see the impending crisis that you and I see, or at least they don’t see the need to act now.
European Union and the Failed Welfare State
Could it be that rich and productive countries are tired of subsidizing social welfare, re-distribution of wealth schemes, failed multiculturalism, and sloth?
Why OMT Cannot Possibly Solve Anything; Monti Warns Italian Unions; Over 200,000 Jobs at Risk; Italy’s Insane Labor Rules
The first structural problem is preposterous labor work rules in Italy, Spain, and Greece. The second structural problem is the ECB and the euro itself. One size interest rate policy cannot possibly work in a mix of cultures and work rules.
A Eurozone Crash Is Baked In The Cake
Those governments are all bankrupt. But much more serious than financial bankruptcy is their total moral and intellectual bankruptcy. At this point the Europeans are so craven and degraded they deserve to be indentured servants of the Chinese, which they will be.
EU band-aid won’t stop bleeding to death
The truth is that the financial crisis in Europe has not been cancelled – it has just been put off for a few weeks or a few months.
Spain and The Runaway Euro Bailout Train
The situation has become so critical that European leaders reportedly are working on the issuance of joint euro bonds to rescue euro. That might save the euro, but here’s one scary question for all–How long can this bailout train and money printing press keep on running?
This ain’t about Greece any more folks
I talked with a Swiss banker from Geneva today. The conversation went like this:
Eurozone Retail Sales Crash: Record Declines in France and Italy, Overall Revenues Drop at Near Record Pace
This should bury the notion the eurozone recession will be short and shallow.
Farewell to ‘Europe’?
Needless to say, if Europe once again descends into the vortex of economic privation, religious and/or ethnic “cleansing” and possibly strife that has happened so often there, our own tranquility and prosperity will be jeopardized, as well.