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  1. Brandmon

    Global Financial Crisis

    Yeah, Spain is in deep shit in that regard and the main problem to be tackled there.
  2. Brandmon

    Global Financial Crisis

    Looking at the statistics, 6% is relatively low and just above optimal levels. US and US unemployment is at 8%. French and Italian at 10%. Portuguese and Irish at about 15%. Greek and Serb unemployment at about 22%. So I would say Danish unemployment is certainly not unhealthy. Could be much...
  3. Brandmon

    Global Financial Crisis

    First the EU =/= Eurozone. While linked, both institutions are completely separate. Even if Greece leaves the Eurozone, it will still remain in the EU. Secondly debt-sharing should have been realised in some form or another from the onset of the Eurozone. Maybe if Germany started caring about...
  4. Brandmon

    Global Financial Crisis

    The Euro will crash itself when the time comes in the absence of a solution: there is no doom scenario and when no solution with the Euro is found, then it will be broken up and things will carry on. It would be just wrong to purposefully pursue the breakup of the Eurozone with the argument that...
  5. Brandmon

    Global Financial Crisis

    The Euro was never meant to take advantage of any economic homogeneity, but was seen as a means to achieve it. It was from the onset a political move rather than an economic one - proven by the fact that nation states were reluctant with enforcing the economic rules needed to make the whole...
  6. Brandmon

    Global Financial Crisis

    No single president will fix the economy and no single party will fix the economy. The politicians might all preach otherwise, yet if they sincerely want the economy fixed, the people at Congress should get their shit together and start earning what the taxpayer is paying them. But...