I am the eternal wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:58 AM, grate.swan <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> April 21, 2009
>> Spain's Falling Prices Fuel Deflation Fears in Europe
>> By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
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> First off, I want to thank you for posting this. I don't get much
> information about what's happening across the pond financially except from
> some friends living there. I know that Poland, Serbia and Ireland have
> tanked.
>
> I remember a Frenchman (it would be, of course) raving on about President
> Cowboy Boooosh and how the Euro would make Europe the most powerful economic
> force on Earth. I just shook my head and muttered under my breath. And we
> see the EU central bank and European countries (like Ireland) doing just the
> wrong thing we did at the beginning of the Great Depression. Thank God the
> US has the economic power to go deep in debt to pay for stimulus and freeing
> up the banking system. GB tried to do that and couldn't sell all the/his
> debt offered at auction.
>
> Of course very soon I'll be an ex-pat of the United States and will be
> looking at the country to our north in utter amazement and pity. Thank God
> we have so many corporate headquarters in Dallas. If we run should out of
> money, which is unlikely, we can nationalize them. God bless the Second
> Republic of Texas.
I think Arnie would like to beat Rickie to the punch and create Ecopotia.