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2011-08-18 Economy

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Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-08-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Perhaps the Germans are running low on customers who can buy what they produce.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-18 00:42|| 2011-08-18 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 AEP commented in the Telegraph, regarding Germany & the Euros: There are no innocents in this story. All countries share blame. Germany is a sinner in all kinds of ways, not least because it seems to think it can lock in a permanent structural trade surplus, and then order others to stop running deficits.
Hmm. Sounds like another country much in the news lately.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-18 00:59|| 2011-08-18 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 A different commentator in the Telegraph: Yet it doesnt take a degree in economics to figure out that if everyone is scrimping and saving, there wont be any demand in the economy. Not everyone can be a surplus nation, yet this logical impossibility is what German policy seems to be trying to create.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-18 01:04|| 2011-08-18 01:04|| Front Page Top

#4 This is very bad news "huge problem for the eurozone". Stocks will tumble everywhere and precious metals to the moon Alice. They have already increased efficiencies. Contractions in order with increased frequency and duration. Distracted with internal events they will be less able to carry euro zone. Delivery will hopefully go well but could be ugly. They may have to spank it to see which end cries to find its mouth.

Posted by Dale 2011-08-18 07:32|| 2011-08-18 07:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Can't bail out everyone.

Posted by Spot 2011-08-18 07:51|| 2011-08-18 07:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe Germany has been called upon to bail out too many in-debt countries? Their own economy is stalling.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-08-18 09:26|| 2011-08-18 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Euro markets are taking a BIG hit today. Avg about 5%.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-18 10:24|| 2011-08-18 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 This may be the real reason the market is diving.

Posted by newc 2011-08-18 11:17|| http://concisemagazine.wordpress.com/ 2011-08-18 11:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes Anonymoose all are. Some differences. Here its negative news, in Europe its Banks, in Asia except Australia it's diminished growth expectations. I don't see a one world order with all the goings on now.

Posted by Dale 2011-08-18 13:10|| 2011-08-18 13:10|| Front Page Top

#10 it seems to think it can lock in a permanent structural trade surplus,

Actually it can. If the money gets recycled in other ways, such as Germans buying farmhouses in Tuscany.

Posted by phil_b 2011-08-18 16:48|| 2011-08-18 16:48|| Front Page Top

#11 "I don't see a one world order with all the goings on now."

Silver lining, Dale.

Posted by Barbara 2011-08-18 18:59|| 2011-08-18 18:59|| Front Page Top

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