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Greece Election Results- LIVE THREAD (polls Close at 11AM EDT)
Various | 6-17-12 | TCRLAF

Posted on 06/17/2012 8:05:24 AM PDT by tcrlaf

Here we go again, Groundhog Day. And likely with almost the same result as last time likely.

Interesting quote:

Condemning the outside interference in the election, Greek blogger Nick Malkoutzis, who is also deputy editor of deputy editor of Kathimerini English Edition, writes that "Europe that has become scared of democracy".

UK Guardian is Live-Bogging, with updates every minute: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/greek-election-blog-2012/2012/jun/17/greek-elections-greece-polls-live?newsfeed=true


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To: ExPatGreek
There is something systemically unsustainable in western capitalism

What makes it unsustainable is Gov't intevention in capitalism, not capitalism itself.

61 posted on 06/17/2012 11:21:07 AM PDT by what's up
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To: ExPatGreek

“There is something systemically unsustainable in western capitalism...”

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Specifics?

Examples?

Maybe we ought to let capitalism actually WORK, relatively unencumbered, before we make blanket, academic statements.


62 posted on 06/17/2012 11:24:43 AM PDT by EyeGuy (Armed, judgmental, fiscally responsible heterosexual.)
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To: ExPatGreek

“I am graduating with an MBA from a prestigious american university at the end of the year and I’m mad as hell.”

... About the ridiculous tuition you paid? Or that you bought into the prestigious thingy? Sorry, target rich environment, that post was.

“Now that the criminal negligence and moral lapses in public and private leadership are so obvious to me, and yet remain so elusive to many of my classmates I am very pessimistic about the next decade.”

Next decade is amazingly bright - in Asia. Go west, young man! More initial public offerings are happening in Asia than in the USA and London combined (so I’ve heard). Our country is being choked by loss of liberty, over-regulation, freeloading bums, non-elected rule-making weasel agencies, over-taxation and lack of balls by those elected. In the meantime, Asia continues to rise. Go to Singapore. Good luck.

Greece will eventually leave the Euro. So will Spain. So will anther biggy by the time this is over.


63 posted on 06/17/2012 11:26:53 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ("I'm comfortable with a Romney win." - Pres. Jimmy Carter)
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To: rawhide

Re; “can they form a coalition to govern?”

I surely don’t know but Zerohedge has a map up that is interesting and this comment:

“Finally throwing a monkey wrench in all coalition creation plans is the following:

•Pasok’s Diamantopoulou announces it would not join coalition government with ND if Syriza is not in
Needless to say, Syriza would not join in a coalition whose core premise is everything Syria strives to abolish.”


64 posted on 06/17/2012 11:31:04 AM PDT by bunster
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To: what's up

True to an extent.

Back when all banks were local institutions that only used depositors’ money for local investment, living standards universally rose.

But now the global interconnectedness of the markets allow for profits to be made in far away places where externalities are only felt by the local stakeholders and not felt by the investors or shareholders. In this environment Government is the only entity powerful enough to regulate financial behavior since relying on moral judgement has proven ineffective. And unfortunately the regulation has been written by interest groups and congressional staff unqualified to provide substantial oversight.

Once again, I like capitalism but I love and crave competence the most.


65 posted on 06/17/2012 11:33:19 AM PDT by ExPatGreek
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To: ExPatGreek
"There is something systemically unsustainable in western capitalism democracy..."
The mob can vote itself what it wants and refuse to pay for it- or pay outrageous amounts for it.

It's that simple. When writing the American constitution our Founders were very preoccupied with finding the right amount of democracy for the republic as democracies always turn into tyrannies as the people learn they can get more from voting than from working.

67 posted on 06/17/2012 11:33:26 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: ExPatGreek

The Peruvian economist, DeSoto, has a good book about what is
missing in expecting free trade capitalism to alone establish prosperity.

http://www.demographia.com/bk-desoto.htm

It is admired by many for its insight.

The Greek people are a wonderful bunch. The nation has taken a wrong turn many decades ago. It expects things from government that only can be given a the cost of ruination. The bill has arrived and they hope to not pay.


68 posted on 06/17/2012 11:36:00 AM PDT by KC Burke (Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
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To: mrsmith

Perfect.


69 posted on 06/17/2012 11:39:03 AM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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"Laura Ballarin‏@lauballarin RT “@BBCBreaking: First official #Greece results: ND 29.5%, 128 seats. Syriza 27.1%, 72 seats. Pasok 12.3, 33 seats. Based on 18% of vote "

The blog I linked to earlier is now "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable "...

70 posted on 06/17/2012 11:43:32 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: ExPatGreek
to be made in far away places where externalities are only felt by the local stakeholders and not felt by the investors or shareholders

Same dynamic happened in colonial times.

Sure, things can get over-extended and the end result of taht will be the implosion of business engaged in such. That's a characteristic of free trade...it creates its own winners and losers depending on how consumers respond.

Yes, competence is great and is a characteristic (of course) to be desired in all peoples in all walks of life.

Capitalism is more of practical theory on the operation of society in general. As a philosophy directing the operation of society which includes the competent as well as the incompetent it is superior to others.

71 posted on 06/17/2012 11:47:16 AM PDT by what's up
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

“I am graduating with an MBA from a prestigious american university at the end of the year and I’m mad as hell.”

“... About the ridiculous tuition you paid? Or that you bought into the prestigious thingy? Sorry, target rich environment, that post was.”

I said it that way trying to emphasize that most of my classmates will be going into the some of the largest private leadership roles having been educated by the people that are the cause of many of the problems.

(also, I am here on 50% scholarship and grants.)

Yes I did come here because I wanted more access to the brightest minds and biggest institutions. But now that I’m nearly done I’ve committed myself to a non-profit management career where the mission is the bottom line not eps.

“Next decade is amazingly bright - in Asia. Go west, young man! “

Absolutely not. That is more of the same. Exporting this behavior globally while chasing money around the world until it’s all gone will leave the WHOLE world (instead of half of it) in this predicament. I’m sorry if I don’t want to sacrifice all the people, history, tradition, and art I love in the name of profit.

All of our “brightest minds” can’t be on one side of the stakeholder/shareholder gap.


72 posted on 06/17/2012 11:47:57 AM PDT by ExPatGreek
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To: ExPatGreek
Now that the criminal negligence and moral lapses in public and private leadership are so obvious to me, and yet remain so elusive to many of my classmates I am very pessimistic about the next decade.

I like capitalism, but I love competence.

You sound like a TFer (Ticker Forum).

Stop the looting! Start prosecuting! We want the Greeks to tell the EU to stuff it, like Iceland did.

74 posted on 06/17/2012 11:49:19 AM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: mrsmith
This site shows 39% of the vote in with ND about 4.5% ahead

http://ekloges.ypes.gr/v2012b/public/index.html?lang=en#{"cls":"party","params":{"id":57}}

75 posted on 06/17/2012 11:50:25 AM PDT by what's up
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To: KC Burke

“The Greek people are a wonderful bunch. The nation has taken a wrong turn many decades ago. It expects things from government that only can be given a the cost of ruination. The bill has arrived and they hope to not pay.”

You hit the nail on the head.

And when I say “there is something systemically unsustainable in western capitalism” I specifically mean the way pain is felt and the way risk is mismanaged.


76 posted on 06/17/2012 11:54:22 AM PDT by ExPatGreek
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To: mrsmith

Your post makes me wish FR had a “like” button.


77 posted on 06/17/2012 11:54:25 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: ExPatGreek

Capitalism without any moral underpinnings invariable devolves into the nasty stew we see before us. Of course socialism devolves into a nasty stew even faster, since the recipe is for nasty stew.


78 posted on 06/17/2012 12:03:51 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: ExPatGreek
Absolutely not. That is more of the same. Exporting this behavior globally while chasing money around the world until it’s all gone will leave the WHOLE world (instead of half of it) in this predicament. I’m sorry if I don’t want to sacrifice all the people, history, tradition, and art I love in the name of profit.

Sanity. Thank you. There's all too little of it anymore, even here.

79 posted on 06/17/2012 12:07:44 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: ExPatGreek

In the days before banks with national scope, e.g., late 1920s in the United States, a single bank failure would destroy the economy of an entire community. Spreading risk across the entire country since the 1930s and around the world in the 21st Century protects locals from the bad decisions of other locals. As with other attempts at risk management, the model has to account for “common cause”, which has not been dealt with comprehensively yet (see the economic crisis of late summer 2008 and subsequent legislation). When only a few people can quantitatively calculate financial risk, they tend to make the same assumptions and thus introduce systemic risk where the intention is to disburse risk.


80 posted on 06/17/2012 12:18:43 PM PDT by sefarkas (Why vote Democrat Lite?)
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