Re: Hypocrisy Democracy
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Your missing the point completely and just copy pasting irrelevant stuff from google.
The Euro does not have a centralised treasury - this is a huge problem for it and it cannot reduce its value. When it bails out a country (like Greece) the member state has to borrow the money in bonds (from another member state) in order to do so. It cannot print and dish out its own money like the UK or any sovereign country with a centralised treasury can (no member state that has the common currency has its own central back - its all done from the ECB).
So far it has spend about 10 years pumping 60 billion a month (reducing to 30 billion a month in 2017) to keep the banks afloat. All that money needs to be repaid and the poorest of the 27 (Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland etc) do not have the means to do so. Unemployment in the Eurozone is up to 25% for some member states - but the UK is seeing record lows. Why do you think this is ? Are the GDP figures in the Eurozone artificially inflated through QE ? Ofcourse they are that's why Germany, Italy etc are going into recession now QE has stopped.
When Eurozone QE finally did stop at the end of 2018 we now see the Eurozone going into recession - it cannot balance its books or devalue its currency to offset the debt. The debt has to be paid back somehow - but car sales are down because of the diesel issues, China not not buying as many, USA sanctions on EU steel etc and the UK (Brexit) leaving and taking with it its quotas.
Does that give you some idea of the scale of the problem with the Euro ?
Here is another piece of information ...
The UK is leaving the EU and because of the uncertainty, our GDP is flatlining. However, we are still ahead of Germany, which the EU is based on as far as manufacturing is concerned. Next month Germany will be in technical recession - we will most likely follow but we can devalue the pound to attract investment - the EU cannot do this with the Euro.....
How is the EU doing do you think ? Doing well is it ?
Considering we stopped QE in 2014 .....
EDIT ... this just in, the ECB downgrading their growth again
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-...growth-outlook
We didn't stop QE in 2014 and so far its cost £500 billion.
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England said on Thursday it could start to sell the nearly half trillion pounds of assets it bought to boost the economy sooner than previously thought, though analysts said a reduction still looked years away.
Like other central banks, the BoE amassed huge sums of government bonds bought with newly created money to spur economic growth after the financial crisis, but a decade later they are now working out how to unwind this stimulus.
You ask 'How is the EU doing do you think ? Doing well is it ?
Its doing no better of worse than the UK with its 0.1% growth!!!
I see that you use google as well, but I am not presenting that as a negative!!!