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Financial Panic Sweeps Europe As The Head Of The IMF Warns Of A “1930s Depression”
The American Dream ^ | 12-17-2011

Posted on 12/17/2011 3:23:42 PM PST by blam

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1 posted on 12/17/2011 3:23:46 PM PST by blam
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Should You Worry About Europe's Back Door Bank Run?
2 posted on 12/17/2011 3:26:22 PM PST by blam
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Could this be the great transition from socialism to communism that Karl predicted? Europe is much farther down the Cloward-Piven path.


3 posted on 12/17/2011 3:28:26 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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This economist has been writing about the Euro crisis and why it can’t be solved.

He gives lots of charts, also showing how the Fed has no ammo left.

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com


4 posted on 12/17/2011 3:29:54 PM PST by whitedog57
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So, I don’t have to panic till 2012. That’s way off next year.


5 posted on 12/17/2011 3:30:05 PM PST by Cold Heart
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There may be one glimmer of hope on the horizon. The Federal Reserve has been lending huge amounts of money to the European Central Bank and the European Central Bank has been lending that money out to European banks. In turn, the European banks have been using much of that money to buy up European government bonds. It is a massive Ponzi scheme, but it has stabilized bond yields in Europe for now. This scheme was described in a recent article by Simone Foxman....

So the only glimmer of hope is throwing more good money after bad? Smells like bullsh*t.

6 posted on 12/17/2011 3:30:08 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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So the only glimmer of hope is throwing more good money after bad?

Actually they're throwing bad money after bad. It's all newly-created on Ben Bernanke's say-so. It isn't backed up by any production of tangible goods and then saved by consumers or businesses.

It's just electronic representations of green pieces of paper with clever anti-counterfeiting threads. Those threads are a device to keep us from printing new ones. Our betters have the passcode to bypass it.

7 posted on 12/17/2011 3:39:06 PM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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Apparently Ms Lagard is always, “the last to know”!


8 posted on 12/17/2011 3:41:20 PM PST by crghill (Silly Mormons, God is triune.)
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The Globalist Bastards make their play.

Any other time the U.S. would refuse to attend. With Obozo at the helm, the Titanic is listing to port.

Illegal POTUS, Traitorous Bastards in DC, Global Banking Fraud, walking away from unfinished military action. Very Very bad prescription.

Total Meltdown or open military conflict? We shall see.


9 posted on 12/17/2011 3:43:27 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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Let's see:

1. The United States is sending material and jobs to an aggressive oriental country.

2. Financial markets are in turmoil.

3. The dollar is divorced from any reality.

4. The United States government has been politically intervening in all sectors of the economy.

5. The Constitution has been trampled.

6. Favored corporations/banks/cronies have been deemed “too big to fail/prosecute”.

7. Close to 20% of the true workforce is unemployed.

8. Soup kitchens abound (they're called food stamps and unemployment compensation).

9. The Administration, Senate, and half the Supreme Court are in the hands of Marxist traitors.

This looks sooooo familiar.

Hang onto your socks. Great Depression II & WWIII are on our doorsteps!

10 posted on 12/17/2011 3:43:36 PM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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Are you telling me that spending trillions of fiat dollars on entitlements might not be economically sustainable??

/sarcasm


11 posted on 12/17/2011 3:43:48 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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They're just making sure that when the Euro goes the dollar goes with it...

I suppose that will bring in the opportunity for a one world currency they so desire...

It worked so well for the Euro, why not do it planet wide...

12 posted on 12/17/2011 3:45:40 PM PST by DB
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Hundreds of hours away.


13 posted on 12/17/2011 3:46:11 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Looking for the exit. It’s 1861 all over again.


14 posted on 12/17/2011 3:46:46 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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PLUS, The Fed just loaned some bank over $300 billion through the discount window (see charts at this economist’s blog site).

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com


15 posted on 12/17/2011 3:47:12 PM PST by whitedog57
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Worry not EU and all the World...Obama will ride to the rescue of the liberal elites, and as for the masses of serfs...be it known, our borders are wide open and welcoming all with unhindered access to the land of plenty, free for all.


16 posted on 12/17/2011 3:52:36 PM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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“Murphy was an optimist”


17 posted on 12/17/2011 3:54:28 PM PST by Cold Heart
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A large helping of EUO looks pretty good right now, with a side order of DXD and a little SIJ and SDS for good measure.


18 posted on 12/17/2011 3:59:25 PM PST by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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Well, if it works... then we stand to be the benificiary of all the European assets they had to hock in order to get our paper ‘money’.

If it doesn’t, we’ll have nothing to show for it.


19 posted on 12/17/2011 4:04:58 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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Sounds like they are trying to talk themselves into a depression.


20 posted on 12/17/2011 4:05:33 PM PST by Brilliant
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