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The Chart That Keeps Angela Merkel Up At Night
There is one thing that keeps Angela Merkel awake at night. It's not the cries of despair from Greek pensioners; it's not the stomach rumbles of starving Portuguese; it's not the penniless Cypriots... it's the rise of the euroskeptic and the possibility that her empire will be forced to wage not financial war but another type of conflict...
With elections looming, Merkel's bullying tactics - that her creditor demands trump any sovereign growth ambitions another nation may have - mean if nations want more Europe, they really mean more Germany.
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After the way Greece has been treated, the skeptic numbers should rise.
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Read what you like from that chart...
The real risk to Europe is Brexit. That particular referendum is already on deck and baked into the pie.
The referendum itself sets a very dangerous precedent. Once the other 27 EU members see the UK getting a referendum, their electorates will begin to demand their own.
Just how many in/out referendums can the EU survive?
There is just too much shit yet to hit this particular fan.
Yep. T'was but the first Act. The Unspeakable has been Spoken
When Black Friday comes
Gonna collect everything I'm owed
By the time my friends find out
I'll be on the road
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UVQKiqCZ9No
Spot on.
The UK is a top contributor of the money funding the EU. Take that away and a vast number of EU civil servant jobs disappear along with funding for probably half the projects in Europe.
Brexit means the end of the EU in its current form.
That is why it is amazing that Brussels seems to be not doing everything it can to keep the UK in. They seem to be relying on the huge publicity fear campaign that will be unleashed in the UK. Almost as if they know it will succeed.
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Damn tootin'!
Even with so many cossetted and enamored by the EU, a lot of folks are just having WTF moments.
Especially with Germany being the Lead Protagonist.
The Krauts might think as V is suggesting that somebody needs be taught a lesson to hold the Empire together, it's gonna backfire. Not many people, the subjects, ever really did like the SS marching through the streets, knocking on doors.
So maybe there is some truth that the EU was the ultimate creation, a Phoenix, rising from the Third Reich's ashes
Uh huh Uh huh Uh huh.
Much more like the Phoenix of the Kaiser Reich than the Third Reich, wouldn't you say?
The Euro is basically the DM all gussied up. Ashok at the Dunkin Donuts told me that this morning. He also said third times a charm for the krauts to take over Europe.
Naagh - check out their demographics. They are a crash and burn like Japan and China. Not enough little Krauts to carry on the system - let alone pay the pension promises. Guilt or Narcissism wins. No babies, No Benzs.
We import Mexicans to back fill the failing Ponzi scheme - they have Mussies - see how that works out. No cultural, political or religious cohension and once the Jihads enter - as they always do - mayhem will follow. A Euro Powder keg for all sorts of issues with debts begin the catalyst.
"Banks, not tanks."
Is Europe finally waking up to the reality that they are living under The Fourth Reich?
Fuck TPTB
How about Obamanation skeptics? Currently still only about 30%.
Another lie brought to you by Goldman Sachs
Everything keeps a German up at night.
"Their day is never done."
I think taking the hatchet to Greece does bother her.
Look at Helmut Kohl and the legacy he left. "One Germany anchored in Europe."
Germany is CLEARLY not a failed State.
They're legendary for their arrogance too of course so "no one is crying over this good sweating."
She has made a terrible blunder not sticking up for sacrosanct borders in the East...then calling for a "sanctions regime."
Now not only are us batshit crazy Americans there...SO IS THE I...M...F....and organization to be VERY feared.
So that is my Lodestar ironically. A Frenchwoman named LaGarde.
"And Frenchmen who wisely bury their gold in tin coffee cans in their back yards."
Merkel was Afterall "called to France" and indeed went.
For those that don't know....France did not nearly suffer The War as the rest of Europe did.
Charles "Of Gaulle" was an interesting guy to. "Plain soldier with his wife buried next to him."
Doubt Angela Merkel is having hard time sleeping. Greece bent over just as all these euro skeptics will. They can just cut access to funds. Look at all the debt crisis and ceilings, just keep on extending and pretending.
Thinking youre right. Just wondering if this whole mess doesn't get so out of control that even Merkel doesnt lose a few zzz's next few days.
ill take merkel and lagarde and other imposing nagging slow witted broad and throat fuck her til she pukes up that caviar on my shoes, nice.... at least me being nice is finished. whore of babylon types, i cant even pick one, there is too many sneaky lowlife financial and political griselda blancos out there. you bitches need hobbies like front yard gardening shit or buying cool statues and leave it at that.
that special ice swan i will punt that pos through a window til it lands on your bugatti, you broads shoud have been more deceptive youre too easy to notice, maybe go to the country for a few years, take a break, under the radar. you hag monsters really need darpa, to retain power because without them youre my toy, biiiiiitch and youre daughters. arrrrrr matey.
humans dont like knees on their necks, and guns to their backs, im not a fan you bird faced vulture bitch. you made a monumental mistake, you gave unfettered education, time to look, guns to blast, youre men will die at least a few.
eat my shit and die..........signed truly yours you ostrich lookin bitch
You need psychological help.
It is a serious concern to society that people with your thought processes are walking the streets.
Agreed, for a moment I could visualise Jessie's first time he takes heroin scene from "Breaking Bad" when I read that tweekers incoherant rant.
What keeps Angela Merkel up at night? A stiff cucumber, bottle of gin and Ellen reruns.
lol
I think she likely prefers over Jägermeister und Schnapps rather than gin to go with her cucumber.
..and she might be lubing the cuke with tzatziki sauce right about now..
Goldschläger?
Maybe..
She might go for the top mixer on that page. :-D
Rich Dead Nazi (aka Liquid Cocaine) : Goldschläger, Jägermeister, and peppermint schnapps mixed in equal proportion [7]
At this level it's redundant. / it's superfluous
BTW I'm a fan Manthong. It's a pleasure.
I think Philo dropped his anchor.
Well thanks..
I’m more of a macro guy and usually have a sarcastic correlation there somewhere.
I wish I knew the currency micro as well as you.
I'm flattered.
Jägermeister is a type of wart remover. Why would you ever put it in anything you drink?
Jägermeister vs absinthe
I've got to admit finely distilled GIN is for adults.
Actually, I think this does the job- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bosww6HLgRg
<< What keeps Angela Merkel up at night? >>
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Just my two pfennigs.
see re inserted comment above :-)
My first thought - how the hell did you find that? LOL
Too freaking bizarre - an image I will not forget too soon. Yikes.
Thanks for the ROTFLMAO.
Showed it to my GF because she asked why I could not stop laughing (she did not find it at all amusing).
She asked, "Where do you find shit like that?"
I answered, "Zero Hedge."
She replied, "Figures."
Not Gin, that's too English.
Schnapps: Doppelkorn. Dornjaeger. And certainly not 'Herr Professor Doktor Merkel'.
Whats 9'' long......
real hard......
and has cum in it?
A cucumber.
No self-respecting German would drown oneself in Gin. A good German will drink beer. If beer isn't your thing, its wine or Schnapps.
There's a 3-letter organization a few thousand miles west that has the goods on her peccadillo's too... And that's how you spell Eurozone foreign (and economic) policy, because they are now one in the same, with 'One ring to rule them all'...
Greece shows very clearly the "advantages" of EU/Eurozone membership, or rather, imprisonment- to a nightmarish structure- a type of Weimar version 2.0.
I really hate to say this. Based on the F/X covering about 2 hours before the markets closed, it looks like Greece is fucked.
I hedged my bets, and hope I'm wrong. I'm in the money, but humanity comes first!
In what way, Yen? You mean like proper fucked?
I mean: Merkel has to answer to this ass~clown.
Between the Deutche Bank hangover(libor rigging) and Bundsbank games, Germany looks pretty ugly, when it comes to global financial prowess.
It looks like most of the European politicians and banks are in " self preservation" mode, and that's certainly NOT "pro growth".
Germany is the principal payer in the entire EU/Euro scheme. Of course it is fucked, no matter the games played. It's like the spouse who has to sustain a huge family from his earned revenue, even though he lives in a crappy marriage. In the end, money (or rather the lack of it) always kill romantic idealism... Can't wait for the moment when the Germans themselves will figure out the big secret: that Euro means they'll have to pay for everybody else !
So the Germans should not be rewarded for working hard and taking big cuts the last 10 years ....? Or is the author only referring to the German bankers?
Personally, it pisses me off to work harder to support an dpay for: 1) Bankers' 7-course dinners; 2) foreign bankers; and 3) the FSA.
Screw all of them!
You are making sense and at least you have a few examples of what you are focused on.
Many Articles are like Test of Bias. Either one or another, black or white no Gray areas.
I wish I had an Online Library where I could conduct market reseach. There probably are a couple and I am ignorant. I get most of my stuff from Wikipedia and it links to CIA, WB or IMF (Sometimes OECD)... or I look in FRED for a chart. BEA & BLS are also popular, but don't really show foreign government or foreign market data.
Anyone have an Online LIbrary source for Foreign Countries Market Conditions and Marketing Research?
This week I saw a post where Germans work less than any other people in Europe. Could be true.
I also see stratification of Smaller Economies within a country, Corporate and unincorporated segments, Self Employed versus corporate or government segments.
I did some numbers this week. Looks like Greek Government Employment levels are about equal to the USA, or a little less. 8% in USA for people aged 16 or older work for government in the USA... for Greece it is 8% for those 15 and older, but Greece recently cut government employment. I'm not sure if the Greek population is older or if that makes a difference.
Call me a Cynic, but I don't trust anybody writing articles about Greece.
These Germans working 'so hard' (they don't work much harder than the rest and have plenty of holidays) and taking big cuts (true, reunification tax and lower salary increases) flooded the German banks with cheap Euro and that served as an export subsidy that they lent to anybody that wanted to borrow. And then they got bailed by the European taxpayers when it all went sour in Greece.
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So the Germans should not be rewarded for working hard and taking big cuts the last 10 years ....? Or is the author only referring to the German bankers?
Just imagine how bad it would be for them if they had to trade with the DM, and how much better for Greece if they were using Drachma.
Copared to Greece, Germany gets a 800 yard start in a 1,000 yard race in trade because of the Euro.
So we are set for a repeat of this Greece story over and over since it will never be fixed, in fact with further austerity Greece will go into higher unemployment, more domestic spening shrinkage, and GDP decline, a long slow slide into the abyss.
And Spain will join the party.
Its not all that difficult to scuttle one's own currency. The key is doing just enough to keep the currency down in value without sending the country into a tailspin. A lot of tools can do the job. The Germans could start scaling down their average retirement age, they could print money and spend it on buying bonds from countries who's currencies they wish to see the deutsce mark be devalued against, they could keep spending billions in taxpayer money on solar paneling the entire country. Greece doesn't have a patent on proligate spending.
From that chart, Italy is the one that should keep Merkel awake at night.
And France...don't forget France.
It's not just the current level of Eurosceptics or the upward trend for France...it's the large size of the economy (30% bigger than Italy) and the (mis)perception that France is a stalwart to the cause.
No France = No EU.
Lights out.
In truth: No Italy = No EU also.
Fuck all of you.
For a man of my age, The Angel of Death, after her fall, is a pretty hot piece of ass. She has respiration, a face that wouldn't look too bad once she's on her back, a desperate need to fuck the world over [call me 'the world' baby!], and a bit of heft to her frame so I woudn't feel to guilty about ass-fucking [a write-down? That's so unfair!! (Take it bitch!!)]
I'd bet she's a screamer...and loves a depth deprived dick down her ass. I look at her as trailer trash elevated without explanation. She was an East Berliner made Head Honcho of the unified Germany. Somehow I think Pabst Blue Ribbon and hog feet are her comfort foods. I could fuck that.
No. It's Detusch Bank. STUPID!!!
and to think that most of those parties consist of crypto fascists and other losers.
What would happen if a respectable party would run on an euro sceptic/ pro E.U agenda?
Can you spell landslide victory
There must be summat wrong.
The founding mothers of the EU - French and others - promised us for 40 years that creating an EU would bring endless luv and peace right across Europe and bring an end to the centuries of war and disharmony and an end to German panzers roaring across the plains gobbling up other nations and stealing all the wealth.
What could have gone wrong (!!)
I want to be elected. How much does it cost.
The withdrawal of AFD-founder Bernd Lucke (AFD = the eurosceptic party threatening Merkels conservatives...) as head of the anti-Euro-movement in Germany will be followed by his already announced startup of the next eurosceptic party within this country.
There is no doubt that in the next parliamentary elections the next Lucke-party will break the 5-percent-hurdle from a standing position.
As it appears the old AFD, which focussed more an more to national issues in terms of refugee policy, Pegida etc..., should be in the next parliament as well.
Both parties tow away conservative voter potential from Angela Merkels CDU and in the light of epic facts this time for Merkel-System-Medias it will be hard to critizise the "new" AFD...
One should know that in consideration on the static political landscape in Germany a voter migration among parties about 10 percent and more means a heavy earthquake and without doubt the political end for Angela Merkel.
What's undermining popular skeptic movements like in Greece are the massive populations of elderly and sick who are totally dependent on Big Government.
They can’t go very long without their useless, expensive and toxic Big Pharma meds and their retirement check. That’s why the Greek parliament voted in a Troika Bailout package and notice all
the sad photos of the Greek Bank meltdown were of elderly pensioners in despair.
Our corporate controllers deliberately poisoned our population with vaccines, fluoride and GMOs in order to disable our independence making us dependent on Big Government.
For instance in a recent cannabis legalization vote aimed at allowing the elderly some side-effect-free pain and anxiety relief
from cannabis, it was voted down by the very same fearful, anxious and confused elderly it was meant to help.
These anxious and confused patients will vote against any change. It’s all fear driven and impenetrable through reason, evidence and argument.
Now the West has this huge sick obstacle in the way of reforming anything.
This is a short term problem that will quickly pass.
Agreed Kina. When I read all the posts and all the articles, I pick up a vibe that something is wrong within the EU leadership. Schnauble has become the poster boy for taking the hard line stance. He sounds like the 'Minister of War' or General Sherman who burned everything - including Atlanta - at the end of the Civil War just to make sure the Confederate states had the snot kicked out of them so hard that they would remain a cripple for the next 60 years.
Seriously, if you take all the comments that all the EU Ministers are making it looks more like the storm clouds that built up ahead of WW2. These are not the comments of an organization that should be helping a weak member. Instead it's like a gang of thugs who knock someone to the sidewalk and are kicking him to death.
So. I think there are deep divides taking place within the EU. They use the press quite well to present an illusion of solidarity and agreement while there are deep fissures and broken relationships within. Schnauble seems to have taken the ball and run with it and all the minor EU members have joined in as his cheerleaders. Meanwhile not a word from Portugal or Spain ot Italy or France. I think Chancellor Merkel will resign over this. The IMF under Chris Lagarde displays no leadership or policy. Another collapsed organization that lies there like a broken puppet until the US pulls on the strings and makes the puppet dance for a while.
This Greece default has been going on for years and would have been resolved long ago had there been an effective EU. Instead the EU is being consolidated perhaps as a strong political base of power to allow another greater power to use the EU to promote a larger agenda. Why else would they allow countries like Romania and Bulgaria in? But they do make for the start of an Eastern border, no?
So watch Merkel, watch the breakdown of the Russian sanctions and keep noticing the one big name that appears throught this entire Greek debacle. Goldman Sach, or course.
Agreed Kina. When I read all the posts and all the articles, I pick up a vibe that something is wrong within the EU leadership. Schnauble has become the poster boy for taking the hard line stance. He sounds like a 'Minister of War' or General Sherman who burned everything - including Atlanta - at the end of the Civil War just to make sure the Confederate states had the snot kicked out of them so hard that they would remain a cripple for the next 60 years.
Seriously, if you take all the comments that all the EU Ministers are making it looks more like the storm clouds that built up ahead of WW2. These are not the comments of an organization that should be helping a weak member who should never been allowed to join in the first place. Instead it's like a gang of thugs who knock someone to the sidewalk and are kicking him to death.
So. I think there are deep divides taking place within the EU. They use the press quite well to present an illusion of solidarity and agreement while there are deep fissures and broken relationships within. Schnauble seems to have taken the ball and run with it and all the minor EU members have joined in as his cheerleaders. Meanwhile not a word from Portugal or Spain ot Italy or France. I think Chancellor Merkel will resign over this. The IMF under Chris Lagarde displays no leadership or policy. Another collapsed organization that lies there like a broken puppet until the US pulls on the strings and makes the puppet dance for a while.
This Greece default has been going on for years and would have been resolved long ago had there been an effective EU. Instead the EU is being consolidated, perhaps as a strong political base of power to allow a greater power to use the EU to promote a larger agenda. Why else would they allow countries like Romania and Bulgaria in? But they do make for the start of an Eastern border, no?
So watch Merkel, watch the breakdown of the Russian sanctions and keep noticing the one big name that appears throught this entire Greek debacle. Goldman Sachs, or course. A final question to think about. Why was there such intense - almost desperate - actions that allowed these small economically weak nations to join?
Germany IS a failed state, ruled in fact by the stateless jews. Look at the arrest of the 85 year old holocaust denying woman after German public broadcasting aired a special on that hoax. If Germany were not the current euro center for Bolshevism, they would stand up to Zion's military arm, America, and end the Ukraine psychopathy.
Germany IS a failed state, ruled in fact by the stateless jews. Look at the arrest of the 85 year old holocaust denying woman after German public broadcasting aired a special on that hoax. If Germany were not the current euro center for Bolshevism, they would stand up to Zion's military arm, America, and end the Ukraine psychopathy.