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Obama Hood - Spread the Wealth asked:


Not long ago, Hungary was Eastern Europe’s shining light, the one former Communist nation that was destined to catch up to its richer, Western European neighbors. Hungarians were egged on by their government to consume with abandon – to buy that new foreign car or take out a low-interest home mortgage, in euros, while resting assured that German or Austrian banks would guarantee the loans.

Is this the future of the USA with the Chinese backing our debt?

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/03/1878205.aspx

Brent

~Young L~ asked:


1)The ruling body of the United Nations is called the Security Council. Which of the following countries is NOT a permanent member of the Security Council?

a) China
b) USSR (Russia)
c) United States
d) Japan

2) Which of the following issues would be addressed by the UN Disarmament Commission?

a) Outer space weapons
b) Reduction of military budgets
c) Banning chemical weapons
d) All of the above

3) Which of the following statements accurately reflects the UN’s role in human rights?

a) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is voluntary and not legally binding.
b) The UN has not taken a position on human rights.
c) The US opposes the UN stand on human rights because it doesn’t go far enough.
d) The UN supports the rights of women to participate in politics.

4) The original purpose of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was to

a) provide for joint defense of Europe and North America against the Soviet Union.
b) create an economic partnership between the North Atlantic nations.
c) establish a partnership between the US and the USSR in order to prevent nuclear war.
d) create an alliance of European and North American nations against Nazi Germany during World War II.

5) How might you infer that membership in the military alliance of Eastern European nations, known as the Warsaw Pact, was not entirely voluntary?

a) All members of the Warsaw pact pledged to defend each other.
b) The alliance was dominated by the USSR, which kept strict control over the other countries in the pact.
c) All of the countries of Eastern Europe except Yugoslavia joined the pact.
d) The Warsaw Pact was created as a response to the perceived threat of NATO.

6)The World Trade Organization operates by consensus. Which of the following best defines the meaning of consensus?

a) A collective opinion, more than a majority
b) Democratic majority rule
c) Unanimous agreement among all nations participating
d) Control by a powerful minority

7) Not everyone supports the World Trade Organization. What group of people would most likely oppose the WTO?

a) The United States
b) Business Groups
c) Lobbyists for large industries
d) Anti-globalization movement

What is the purpose of the World Bank?

a) Provide a safe, secure place where nations can deposit their money
b) Provide financing for the elimination of poverty and create development
c) An international organization for private multi-national corporations to pool their money
d) All of the above
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Susan

shayholmes4 asked:


E.U. Leaders Turn to I.M.F. Amid Financial Crisis

CARTER DOUGHERTY
Published: February 22, 2009
BERLIN — The leaders of Germany, Britain, France and other European nations called Sunday for the resources of the International Monetary Fund to be doubled, to $500 billion, to help head off new problems in countries already hit hard by the global economic and financial crisis.

And in a statement clearly aimed at hedge funds and other big private pools of capital, the leaders said that “all financing markets and participants” must be regulated in the future. They also vowed to press for sanctions against tax havens.

The leaders met in an effort to hammer out a common European position ahead of the April meeting of the Group of 20, the group of industrialized economies and developing countries, in London. The meeting on Sunday also included leaders from Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, the current holder of the European Union’s rotating presidency.

Eyeing a contagion that is rapidly spreading to Eastern Europe and even countries that use the euro, the leaders highlighted the crisis-prevention role of the monetary fund, an institution whose relevance to the global economy seemed in doubt only a few years ago.

In Germany, a growing unease that the crisis is about to strike close to home has contributed to a shift away from a reluctance to bankroll efforts to ease the financial crisis — whether in the form of bank bailouts or stimulus packages — for fear of paying for other countries’ mistakes.

German officials appear to have concluded that their own economy, underpinned until recently by booming exports, cannot stay afloat if its neighbors crash. Also, international officials from the I.M.F. and the World Bank have argued strongly in private to German officials that Berlin has underestimated the extent to which the crisis has torn at the hard-fought economic integration of Europe.

In Eastern Europe, currencies have tumbled sharply against the euro as financial markets have bid up the odds of an all-out collapse along the lines of Asian countries in the late 1990s. Already, Hungary and Latvia, both European Union members that do not use the euro, have gotten rescue packages from the monetary fund and the European bloc. And among the countries that use the euro, particularly Greece and Spain, financial chaos has meant that government borrowing costs have grown in relation to stalwarts like Germany.

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, endorsed support for fellow European countries on Sunday, while warning that those in need of help would have to revamp their policies.

“If someone needs solidarity, they can count on their partners,” Mr. Sarkozy said at the conclusion of the economic summit meeting here. “Their partners also need to count on them to follow certain basic rules.”

Last week Peer Steinbrück, the German finance minister, suggested that Germany would help finance rescues if necessary. Those developments foreshadow difficulties this year for countries that must borrow on international capital markets to refinance old debt and raise fresh cash.

Between expressions of solidarity and a newfound emphasis on the I.M.F., the European leaders appeared to be corralling the resources, both political and financial, that would allow bailouts of additional European countries if needed. Daniel Gros, director of the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels, said the shift in Berlin and Europe more generally “opens the door to German dominance” of politics in the 27-nation European Union since its financial heft is likely to become vital as the crisis drags on.

Leaders in Berlin also made calls to study the creation of a common bond issue among the 16 countries that use the euro, a move that would partly extend Germany’s sterling credit rating to its shakier neighbors.
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Katie

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Gladys

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Denise

DAR asked:


http://www.gata.org/node/7098

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Monetary union puts half of Europe in depression
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2009-01-17 20:18. Section: Daily Dispatches
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Saturday, January 17, 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/427864…

Events are moving fast in Europe. The worst riots since the fall of Communism have swept the Baltics and the south Balkans. An incipient crisis is taking shape in the Club Med bond markets. S&P has cut Greek debt to near junk. Spanish, Portuguese, and Irish bonds are on negative watch.

Dublin has nationalised Anglo Irish Bank with its half-built folly on North Wall Quay and E73 billion (L65 billion) of liabilities, moving a step nearer the line where markets probe the solvency of the Irish state.

A great ring of EU states stretching from Eastern Europe down across Mare Nostrum to the Celtic fringe are either in a 1930s depression already or soon will be. Greece’s social fabric is unravelling before the pain begins, which bodes ill.

Each is a victim of ill-judged economic policies foisted upon them by elites in thrall to Europe’s monetary project — either in the European Monetary Union or preparing to join — and each is trapped.

As UKIP leader Nigel Farage put it in a rare voice of dissent at the euro’s 10th birthday triumph in Strasbourg, EMU-land has become a Volker-Kerker — a “prison of nations,” to borrow from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

This week, Riga’s cobbled streets became a war zone. Protesters armed with blocks of ice smashed up Latvia’s finance ministry. Hundreds tried to force their way into the legislature, enraged by austerity cuts.

“Trust in the state’s authority and officials has fallen catastrophically,” said President Valdis Zatlers,
who called for the dissolution of parliament.

In Lithuania, riot police fired rubber-bullets on a trade union march. Dogs chased stragglers into the Vilnia river. A demonstration outside Bulgaria’s parliament in Sofia turned violent on Wednesday.

These three states are all members of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM2), the euro’s pre-detention cell. They must join. It is written into their EU contracts.

The result of subjecting ex-Soviet catch-up economies to the monetary regime of the leaden West has been massive overheating. Latvia’s current account deficit hit 26 percent of GDP. Riga property prices surpassed Berlin.

The inevitable bust is proving epic. Latvia’s property group Balsts says Riga flat prices have fallen 56 percent since mid-2007. The economy contracted 18 percent annualised over the last six months.

Leaked documents reveal — despite a blizzard of lies by EU and Latvian officials — that the International Monetary Fund called for devaluation as part of a E7.5 billion joint rescue for Latvia. Such adjustments are crucial in IMF deals. They allow countries to claw their way back to health without suffering perma-slump.

This was blocked by Brussels — purportedly because mortgage debt in euros and Swiss francs precluded that option. IMF documents dispute this. A society is being sacrificed on the altar of the EMU project.

Latvians have company. Dublin expects Ireland’s economy to contract 4 percent this year. The deficit will reach 12 percent of GDP by 2010 on current policies. “This is not sustainable,” said the treasury. Hence the draconian wage deflation now threatened by the Taoiseach.

The Celtic Tiger has faced the test bravely. No government in Europe has been so honest. It is a tragedy that sterling’s crash should have compounded their woes at this moment. To cap it all, Dell is decamping to Poland with 4 percent of GDP. Irish wages crept too high during the heady years when Euroland interest rates of 2 percent so beguiled the nation.

Spain lost a million jobs in 2008. Madrid is bracing for 16 percent unemployment by year’s end.

Private economists fear 25 percent before it is over. Spain’s wage inflation has priced the workforce out of Europe’s markets. EMU logic is wage deflation for year after year. With Spain’s high debt levels, this is impossible.

Either Mr Zapatero stops the madness, or Spanish democracy will stop him. The left wing of his PSOE party is already peeling off, just as the French left is peeling off to fight “l’euro dictature capitaliste.”

Italy’s treasury awaits each bond auction with dread, wondering if can offload E200 billion of debt this year. Spreads reached a fresh post-EMU high of 149 last week. The debt compound noose is tightening around Rome’s throat. Italian journalists have begun to talk of Europe’s “Tequila Crisis” — a new twist.

They mean that capital flight from Club Med could set off an unstoppable process.

Mexico’s Tequila drama in 1994 was triggered by a combination of the Chiapas uprising, a current account haemorrhage, and bond jitters. The dollar-peso peg snapped when elites bega
The dollar-peso peg snapped when elites began moving money to US banks. The game was up within days.

Fixed exchange systems — and EMU is just a glorified version — rupture suddenly. Things can seem eerily calm for a long time. Politicians swear by the parity. Remember John Major’s “soft-option” defiance days before the ERM blew apart in 1992? Or Philip Snowden’s defence of sterling before a Royal Navy mutiny forced Britain off the Gold Standard in 1931.

Don’t expect tremors before an earthquake — and there is no fault line of greater historic violence than the crunching plates where Latin Europe meets Teutonia.
Greece no longer dares sell long bonds to fund its debt. It sold E2.5 billion last week at short rates, mostly 3-months and 6-months. This is a dangerous game. It stores up “roll-over risk” for later in the year. Hedge funds are circling.

Traders suspect that investors are dumping their Club Med and Irish debt immediately on the European Central Bank in “repo” actions.

In other words, the ECB is already providing a stealth bailout for Europe’s governments — though secrecy veils all.

An EU debt union is being created, in breach of EU law. Liabilities are being shifted quietly on to German taxpayers. What happens when Germany’s hard-working citizens find out?

Beverly

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gerafalop asked:



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