“The escalating dispute came as a general strike in Greece spilled over into violent clashes between hooded youths and riot police in Athens. Chants of “burn the banks” are a foretaste of tensions once austerity measures bite in earnest later this year. (vezi aici, aug 2009)
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They took away the gold that was in the Bank of Greece, and they never gave it back. They shouldn’t complain so much about stealing and not being very specific about economic dealings
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The euro is overvalued anyway. It is way out of line, and a weaker euro would be quite useful for Europe to stimulate exports.”

Dupa multi ani si programe din ce in ce mai proaste baietii au realizat ca ei nu mai sunt demult music television si astfel s-a nascut noul logo care il vedeti in dreapta. Cred ca rebrandingul asta putem sa-l trecem ca si eveniment in caietul cu “se apropie sfarsitul lumi” - MTV fara muzica… dar cu multe programe de mizerie.

“The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After this week’s congressional hearing into the bailout of American International Group Inc., you have to wonder if those folks are crazy after all.”
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“This insight is especially valuable given that the New York Fed is a quasi-governmental institution that isn’t subject to citizen intrusions such as freedom of information requests, unlike the Federal Reserve.

This impenetrability comes in handy since the bank is the preferred vehicle for many of the Fed’s bailout programs. It’s as though the New York Fed was a black-ops outfit for the nation’s central bank.”
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“Now, I’m not saying Congress should be meddling in interest-rate decisions, or micro-managing bank regulation. Nor do I think we should all don tin-foil hats and start ranting about the Trilateral Commission.

Yet when unelected and unaccountable agencies pick banking winners while trying to end-run Congress, even as taxpayers are forced to lend, spend and guarantee about $8 trillion to prop up the financial system, our collective blood should boil.”

Toate acestea se intampla departe de noi… mai serveste cineva un imprumut a-la FMI?