Posted on 12/08/2011 10:56:08 PM PST by tcrlaf
she must have called Dominik Hasek a bum!
I believe Denmark was one of the later countries to join the common currency; they were part of the EU, but delayed giving up their currency.
Euroland already went begging to the US for help and a handout through the president and treasury who in turn instructed the Federal Reserve on what to do for Euroland.
The latest news is just minor details as US taxpayer monies have already been committed to Euroland via the IMF so to insure Euroland will not fail. Because US major banks have bet heavily on Euroland’s survival and these banks can’t survive another meltdown due to losing bets.
The stock markets are up because the new money will be looking for a place to park in, everything should be fine... for about a month.
The Euro as a currency and the EU was doomed to failure. Once a nation gives up its currency and central bank, it is no longer a nation. The lure of Nations joining is to be part of European Society, but now countries like Italy and Greece are learning the cost of this decision. Germany has basically installed Euro Statist in the parliaments.
Or:
A dollar may be theoretically worth the same across the continent, but in fact you can buy far more with a dollar in, say, Georgia than you can in, say, California.
I don’t know.
What is their reason for doing anything?
They puzzle me at times.
Ireland is part of the UK, as well, but they use the Euro.
Denmark has never joined the Euro, although it's a EU member. Euro membership was rejected in a referendum.
Bit of a howler there, I'm afraid...
No, it’s not.
I dont think Cameron had a lot of choice really. The UK is not pretty much completely a service economy - particularly financial services. The only thing keeping us afloat is the city of London stock exchange. There is absolutely no way that any British government can accept this proposal by Merkel and Sarkozy to institute taxes on financial transactions. It would finish us, and Cameron MUST know that.
But even a country as large, populous and economically powerful as the US cannot borrow money indefinitely. Sooner or later the creditors will come knocking on the door. Voters in all the Western powers just cannot seem to grasp this. They think the good times are here forever.
Yes that’s true, but its much more marked in Europe. I mean you would expect variations inside the US because of things like local taxation, and real estate, and housing costs, but the differences in Europe go as far as very basic commodities, like food, which can cost 2-3 times more in some countries than in others.
I see; thanks.
Ireland is part of the British Isles, but that’s a geographic distinction. It is not part of the United Kingdom. It is a sovereign country.
Absolutely, there is no doubt he had no choice but to take this action.
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i din’t think Cameron or anyone in the UK has to do anything, other than prepare for disintegration across the channel. That’s what they are doing.
Cameron isn’t a real conservative but at least he is not a euro-fetishist like ken clark or heseltine.
The eurosceptics were totally right about the flaws in the euro. Those flaws are going to destroy the euro and the EU. (And on top of their sovereign debt problems, the eurozone has a massive eurodollar banking crisis as well).
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111207-711023.html
Eurofailure is overdetermined. All the UK has to do is brace themselves for the fallout.
probably don’t see scotland or northern ireland or wales since westminster handles foreign relations for all of them as the UK.
Exactly. And yet administrations from both parties love to give bailouts with borrowed money, and congress follows their lead. I believe that the Obama "stimulus" bill contained authority for Obama, or whover is POTUS, to bail out banks (in Europe or whereever) without any congressional approval. And then there is the IMF. They have so many ways to keep screwing us, but Obama says raise tax rates so everybody will "pay their fair share."
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