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Please consider the inane "Action Plan" for Eurozone Straggler Slovenia . The new government of struggling eurozone member Slovenia is expected to announce Thursday an action plan aimed at avoiding a bailout, reportedly including privatisations, "crisis" taxes and austerity cuts. Moody’s last week cut its rating on Slovenia two notches to "junk", the economy has been in recession since 2011, unemployment stands at 13.5 percent and voters are fed up with their political leaders
See the original article here: ECB Ponders Buying Toxic Debt of the Periphery; Don’t Worry, It Will Be "Fiscally Neutral"…
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Originally posted here: Self-Serving Recommendation of the Day: Visa Asks Spain to Lower Limit on Cash Transactions
Here are a pair of interesting You-Tube videos on fractional reserve lending sent by reader Magnus who lives in Sweden. Godfrey Bloom Blasts Fractional Reserve Lending as Fraud “The problem that we have is a flawed banking system, a fractional reserve banking system where bankers can lend money they don’t have. If you go back in time in the United States to the 1850s, that was a capital offense
President François Hollande’s popularity has sunk to a new low of 24%. Rather than blame his own policies for the huge rise in unemployment and the lack of competitiveness in France, Hollande pins hopes of fresh start on cabinet reshuffle .
