By: charles sereno
Without benefit of good information, I get the feeling that successive postponements of the “train wreck” are cover to allow more money to trickle out of Greece (and Spain) and give more time to large...
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“The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it: `No room! No room!’ they cried out when they saw Alice coming. `There’s plenty of room!’ said Alice indignantly,...
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So Germany has changed its position once again and is all in favor of Greece nationalizing its banks. Nationalizing, as in owned by a sovereign government. As in, The more sovereign debt the merrier....
View ArticleBy: Wat Tyler
Perhaps Thomas Hobbes was right – the power of the sovereign should be absolute. No competition from church,finance,media or other power structure. The sovereign (according to Hobbes) could be one...
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Maybe a simple computer programme might do it – every time the free banks create credit the computer sov raises their bets and destroys them at the same time by printing....
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Agreed, but surely you meant to quote this? It just about sums up the relationship between the the Troika and Greece. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just...
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What happens when the politicians ARE the oligarchs as has been the case in most Southern towns (like mine) for at least a century? This arrangement (plutocracy?) is more stable than given credit. Jim
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No matter how complex and covered by meaningless words, there is not enough wealth in Greece to make any of this work.
View ArticleBy: charles sereno
Greek Epic Roll Call: Hera (Merkel); Athena (Lagarde); Aphrodite (MIA) We could use a little a little love.
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