Site Contributions: Austerity Program(s)
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04/26/13 - From German Recession to Euro Jeopardy
Germany will enter recession, says George Soros ... As one of America's most successful investors warns the eurocrisis is far from over, we consider the investment case for ... |
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04/25/13 - Did Krugman Win the Austerity Argument?
The Economic Argument Is Over — Paul Krugman Has Won ... For the past five years, a fierce war of words and policies has been fought in America and other economically ... |
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04/25/13 - Confirmation of Our Austerity Analysis as the EU Stumbles
The Austerity Movement Is Crumbling ... The big news in economics last week was the paper by a UMASS Grad Student showing that economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart had ... |
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04/23/13 - What is Greece, and What Does It Pull?
Greece will probably pull through ... Greece is not yet out of the woods. But there is a credible path that could lead the country back into the sunlight. That's the main ... |
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04/19/13 - Inevitable Futility of Austerity? Britain Down for the Count?
The Biggest Economic Experiment Of The Last 5 Years Has Ended In Disaster ... The U.K.'s economic story for the past five years has been bleak. Since then there have been two ... |
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04/12/13 - Austerity Comes to America
The Scary Message for Everybody in Obama's Budget ... Most Americans will ignore the dickering over the federal budget that President Barack Obama wants Congress to pass this ... |
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04/04/13 - Now It's The Netherlands's Turn
Economic Crisis Hits the Netherlands ... The Netherlands, Berlin's most important ally in pushing for greater budgetary discipline in Europe, has fallen into an economic crisis ... |
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04/03/13 - More Damage: Euro Tumbles as Reserve Currency
Developing World: Euro Loses Attraction as Reserve Currency ... Countries in the developing world are drastically reducing their euro holdings as economic instability in Europe ... |
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04/01/13 - Telling the Truth About Cyprus: EU Benefit or Mistake?
Now that the crisis in Cyprus has passed, we can finally admit the obvious: The "crisis" it provoked did not deserve the attention it received. Cyprus makes up a fraction of ... |
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03/18/13 - The Retirement Crisis That Must Not Be Mentioned
Welcome to the new model of retirement. No retirement. In 1983 over 60 percent of American workers had some kind of defined-benefit plan. Today less than 20 percent have access ... |
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03/15/13 - Shock: Chinese Leaders Contemplating Harsh Austerity Measures?
Why the Global Economy Is Still Stuck ... In the wake of the financial crisis, policies the world round remain focused on the wrong things, especially speculation ... The U.S. ... |
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03/12/13 - Japanese Solution for Collapsing Portugal?
The Great Portuguese Hollowing Out ... With every passing day Portugal has less and less economy left, while fewer and fewer people remain to try to pay down the debt. As ... |
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03/07/13 - With Italy's Election, the EU Chasm Grows
Italy's Bersani on collision course with Germany and ECB over austerity ... Italy's Pier Luigi Bersani vowed to break free of the country's austerity regime as he laid out ... |
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03/02/13 - Austerity's End Could Bring Additional German Turmoil
The age of austerity is ending ... Whisper it softly, but the age of government austerity is ending. It may seem an odd week to say this, what with the U.S. government ... |
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03/01/13 - Italy Founders While Greece Subsides: Is Austerity Over? Not So Fast ...
Stalling for Time: Greek Reform Effort Slows to a Crawl ... The troika is back in Athens this week and with all eyes on Italy, Greece feels it has little to fear. But important ... |
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01/14/13 - Crackerjack Global Analysis or Analysis on Crack?
Save? Party like it's 2013! ... Economic forecast for 2013: Forget the fiscal cliff, this is the year to spend, spend, spend ... If the words 'fiscal cliff' send you into a ... |
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12/06/12 - I Told You So! Of Course Washington will Steal Your Retirement Benefits
Today the twin fake memes of a "Fiscal Cliff" and "Austerity" are combining to create a contrived excuse to tax and steal far more of your wealth and income, including your ... |
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12/03/12 - Our Collapsing Economy and Currency
Is the "fiscal cliff" real or just another hoax? The answer is that the fiscal cliff is real, but it is a result, not a cause. The hoax is the way the fiscal cliff is being ... |
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12/01/12 - Fiscal Cliff Austerity: Just Another Meme Designed to Steal What is Yours
"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word." – Charles De Gaulle In my home country, the United States, we are ... |
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11/30/12 - New Meaning for 'Voluntary' and Bond Buyback Balancing Act
It is a deep stretch of the imagination to twist arms and appeal to "patriotic duty" in an effort to coerce someone to do something they really do not want to, then call the ... |
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10/29/12 - Reporter Exposes Tax Evasion Among Greek Politicians, Targeted for Arrest
Warrant out for Greek journalist over leak of politicians' alleged tax evasion ... Greek prosecutors have issued a warrant for the arrest of one of the country's top ... |
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07/12/12 - Mainstream Media Lacks the Vocabulary to Explain What's Going On
Proud Spain again humbles itself to the euro's demands ... The eurozone's appetite for self harm knows no bounds. With one in four Spanish workers out of a job, output ... |
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06/05/12 - G7 Is Concerned About Euro Collapse ... Sure They Are!
G7 to hold emergency euro zone talks, Spain top concern ... Finance chiefs of the Group of Seven leading industrialised powers will hold emergency talks on the euro zone debt ... |
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05/29/12 - Italian 'Anarchists' Target Olympics – Do We Believe It?
The Informal Anarchist Federation has vowed to wage 'low level warfare' on Olympics ... An anarchist group has vowed to wage "low level warfare" against Britain, sabotaging ... |
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05/22/12 - Printer Plans for Greek Drachma
UK banknote printer readies for Greek call - source ... De La Rue (DLAR.L) has drawn up contingency plans to print drachma banknotes should Greece exit the euro and approach ... |
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05/10/12 - Italian Voters Reject Austerity, Too
Italians reject Monti's austerity in local vote ... A maverick comic who wants Italy to quit the euro made big gains in local elections on Monday while former Prime Minister ... |
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05/09/12 - Biggest Question: Will Germany Adjust or Will Euro Die?
Crisis escalates as insurrection breaks German control of Europe ... The political dam has broken in Europe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel no longer has enough allies in the ... |
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04/30/12 - Austerity Staggers, Germany Blows Up?
Hollande's 'Growth Bloc' spells end of German hegemony in Europe ... For two years Germany has had its way in Europe, treating historic nations much as Bismarck treated Bavaria ... |
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04/25/12 - Is the Euro Slowly Dying?
It is no coincidence that more and more sovereign debt is being funded by institutions in that country. It is specifically to make leaving the euro easier. An Italian pension ... |
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04/23/12 - EU Unraveling – Now It's Holland's Turn
The Dutch government's failure to reach an agreement in talks to achieve tough spending cuts could see ratings agencies cut the country's prized AAA-rating and nervous ... |
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04/05/12 - Rebellion Spreads ... EU Elites Have Miscalculated?
For those who missed the story, a 77-year old retired pharmacist – Dimitris Christoulas – has shot himself to death in front of the Greek Parliament in Syntagma ... |
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02/13/12 - Is Greece a Sacrifice or the Shape of Things to Come?
Germany's Carthaginian terms for Greece ... The last time Germany needed a bail-out from world creditors, it secured better terms than shattered Greece last week ... The ... |
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11/25/11 - Who Needs Austerity When Some Are Rich?
Portugal is broke but austerity measures there are protested persistently. Greece is in the same fix. And indeed in America, too, the Occupy Wall Street crowd appears to ... |
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11/01/11 - Stock Markets Value Coercion Over Greek Choice
Greece stokes euro debt fears, hits riskier assets ... Asian shares and commodities fell on Tuesday, after a shock announcement that Greece will hold a referendum on a new EU ... |
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10/20/11 - Greek Protests Are NWO Scam?
Protests in Athens bring Greece to standstill amid austerity vote ... Protesters in Athens fought running battles with riot police as a general strike brought Greece to a ... |
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10/20/11 - Why are You so Bullish on the Dollar?!
"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair." ~ Sam Ewing A reader recently asked me why I was "so ... |
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10/10/11 - Greece in America
Most of us who are aware of world financial trends know that earlier this year thousands of Greeks took to the street and mercilessly engaged in destruction of property around ... |
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09/26/11 - Week-long Unrest in Greece Ahead of Troika Meeting
DB's top story today features Greece's increasingly furious middle class and analyzes the BBC's grim prediction that Greek civil society could unwind considerably if the ... |
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09/21/11 - Roubini Explains How to Avoid Depression II
How to prevent a depression .... The latest economic data suggests that recession is returning to most advanced economies, with financial markets now reaching levels of stress ... |
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09/19/11 - DB Briefs: China's Subprime Credit Crisis / Greeks Evade Taxes for a Reason / Obama Wants to Raise Taxes – Again
China's Subprime Credit Crisis China 'faces subprime credit bubble crisis' ... Monetary tightening in China threatens to pop the $1.7 trillion (£1.07 trillion) credit ... |
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09/12/11 - IMF Bailouts Way to One World Government: Greeks Sick of Eurocrat Orders
Anthony Wile, the founder and chief editor of The Daily Bell, believes that whether Greece decides to leave the euro zone comes down to the people, who are getting frustrated ... |
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07/08/11 - The Rape of Austerity
UK needs £20bn more austerity and retirement at 70, says Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC) ... Britain faces another £20bn of austerity and an increase in the pension ... |
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07/04/11 - EU Yard Sale: Location Greece – Everything Goes!
Greek sovereignty to be massively limited: Juncker ... Greece faces severe restrictions on its sovereignty and must privatize state assets on a scale similar to the sell off of ... |
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06/30/11 - Bailout Battlefield: Greeks Fight Against Foreign Fiscal Take-Over
As the government sits down to vote on tax hikes and spending cuts. It's viewed as the country's last chance to stave off default - something that could have ruinous ... |
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06/13/11 - The End of Social Security and Medicare - or Just Dreamtime
Social Security and Medicare Need Reform Now, Say Trustees ... Chuck Blahous and Robert Reischauer, the two independent trustees of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Fund, ... |
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11/07/10 - Rick Rule on Scarce Commodities, the High Price of Gold and the Sale of Global Resources
The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Rick Rule. Introduction: Rick Rule began his career in the securities business in 1974, and has been ... |
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