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mises



Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anyone who is attached to the welfare or warfare state is going to have a bad decade:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,693317,00.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2010/05/greece_strife_austerity_end_of.html

The debts are unwinding these states before the boomers are able to drain the funds. Incredible. Everything is at risk.
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mises



Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired

PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 11:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's a more optimistic analysis:

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article19229.html
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bacasper



Joined: 26 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 6:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mises, I can't be bothered, nor do I have the time, to read all that stuff. Can't you just give us the one-paragraph summaries, please?
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bucheon bum



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2010 5:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

EU creates $1 trillion bailout to save Euro

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The European Union put up a staggering $1 trillion Monday to contain its spreading government debt crisis and keep it from tearing the euro currency apart and derailing the global economic recovery.

Analysts said the huge sum supplied the "shock and awe" markets had been waiting for for weeks, at least in the short term, and the euro soared on the news.


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Many investors, rattled for weeks by the prospect Greece would default on its mountain of debt, showed relief. The euro climbed as high as $1.3064, up from the 14-month low of $1.2523 it hit late last week.


Economics of the 21st century: when you need more money, and are a developed country, just print more money! The markets will reward you too, it is fantastic!
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caniff



Joined: 03 Feb 2004
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PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2010 5:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mises wrote:
Here's a more optimistic analysis:

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article19229.html



A good read, but perhaps it glosses over the short-to-medium term implications.

I wonder about the societal effects these "austerity measures" will have.
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