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1 posted on 02/10/2015 9:47:07 AM PST by Kaslin
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More catastrophic depression scares. Us little folk are already in declined financial situations, and it’s getting worse. We’ll be better off if global banking and acquisition of all power and wealth by the elite ends.


2 posted on 02/10/2015 9:50:46 AM PST by grania
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The northern Europeans must make a stand sooner or later. If they do not stand, then Greece will be back tomorrow with more demands. Standing behind them will be Spain, Italy, and Portugal waiting their turns.

Tell the Greeks a deal is a deal. Take it or leave. If Greek departure will be such a disaster for Greece, then it will be a disaster for all Italy, Spain, and Portugal to see as well.

The European Union and the Euro will be stronger for making the stand.

Another way of saying this is if the European Union is so weak it cannot stand without Greece then it deserves to die.


3 posted on 02/10/2015 9:56:37 AM PST by DugwayDuke
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This latest Greek problem started when a government employee saw a satellite photo of Athens. He noticed all the home swimming pools. People were supposed to buy a permit to build a home swimming pool. Nobody had bought one.
The lesson is that the Greeks like the good life as long as somebody else pays the taxes for it.
“Let them eat swimming pools.”


4 posted on 02/10/2015 9:59:29 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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I keep reading about this collapse of the euro if Greece exits the EU but no article says exactly how and why. It seems an unsubstantiated idea propagated by reporters too lazy to verify or understand.


5 posted on 02/10/2015 10:02:32 AM PST by 556x45
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As the EU has the world's largest economy and the second largest currency, the effect of dissolution could result in a currency crisis and throw a shaky world economy into a catastrophic depression.

Sounds like fear mongering. I'm not buying it. Quantitative easing exists to shuttle capital to the big international players while starving the little guy and diluting his assets.

Should the Greek situation not be settled, the Anglosphere-led world faces massive political, economic and financial consequences. The EU is possibly its first great experiment in global governance. It believes it must not fail.

Motive for said fear mongering.

7 posted on 02/10/2015 10:36:46 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Those who profess noblesse oblige regress to droit du seigneur.)
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greece has a population about the size of new jersey.
their gdp is most likely less than new jersey.
the amount in question is something like 300 or 400 billion.
dont know what the eurozone gdp is, but if comparable to the u.s. gdp, this cant be an existential threat.
seems like there is a snake in the woodpile.


9 posted on 02/10/2015 12:12:16 PM PST by Palio di Siena
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