Comments on: Europe’s necessary creative destruction http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/2011/11/11/europes-necessary-creative-destruction/ Tue, 14 May 2013 12:43:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: RamonZ http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/2011/11/11/europes-necessary-creative-destruction/#comment-137 RamonZ Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:56:39 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/?p=157#comment-137 If Europe needs a new Marshall Plan because, after 60 years of political integration, it is in the same economic position it was at the end of WW2 then it would be fair to say the EU has totally failed the people of Europe. RZ If Europe needs a new Marshall Plan because, after 60 years of political integration, it is in the same economic position it was at the end of WW2 then it would be fair to say the EU has totally failed the people of Europe.

RZ

]]> By: sarkozyrocks http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/2011/11/11/europes-necessary-creative-destruction/#comment-134 sarkozyrocks Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:57:31 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/?p=157#comment-134 For anyone who wants to know what's going to happen next in the Eurozone crisis, with solutions, this guy has been right all along...led the bandwagon everyone is now jumping on. A MUST READ. http://jackworthington.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/reality-hits-the-eurozone-finally/ For anyone who wants to know what’s going to happen next in the Eurozone crisis, with solutions, this guy has been right all along…led the bandwagon everyone is now jumping on. A MUST READ.
http://jackworthington.wordpress.com/201 1/11/09/reality-hits-the-eurozone-finall y/

]]> By: justine184 http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/2011/11/11/europes-necessary-creative-destruction/#comment-133 justine184 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:04:45 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/?p=157#comment-133 I don't find any "neo-liberal" elements here, but rather a thoughtful and cogent analysis. However, the cost of borrowing staying high is probably the best medicine to convince these peripheral Eurozone countries (plus Italy) to stop borrowing. And debt and overextended borrowing are hardly liberal concepts, as we know from our debt and borrowing record under Reagan, Bush I and Bush II. I don’t find any “neo-liberal” elements here, but rather a thoughtful and cogent analysis. However, the cost of borrowing staying high is probably the best medicine to convince these peripheral Eurozone countries (plus Italy) to stop borrowing. And debt and overextended borrowing are hardly liberal concepts, as we know from our debt and borrowing record under Reagan, Bush I and Bush II.

]]> By: upstater http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/2011/11/11/europes-necessary-creative-destruction/#comment-132 upstater Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:01:08 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/?p=157#comment-132 "Greece: the best possible outcome for that country has happened with Papandreou’s resignation and the selection of economist Lucas Papademos as Prime Minister" How is more neo-liberalism and more debt a "solution" to anything. Just like underwater mortgages in the US with no prospect or ever being payable, the time has come for massive write-offs and restructuring the banking system from TBTF to a regulated public utility model. Enough neoliberal baloney. “Greece: the best possible outcome for that country has happened with Papandreou’s resignation and the selection of economist Lucas Papademos as Prime Minister”

How is more neo-liberalism and more debt a “solution” to anything.

Just like underwater mortgages in the US with no prospect or ever being payable, the time has come for massive write-offs and restructuring the banking system from TBTF to a regulated public utility model.

Enough neoliberal baloney.

]]> By: Kingsago http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/2011/11/11/europes-necessary-creative-destruction/#comment-131 Kingsago Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:56:16 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/?p=157#comment-131 Take this analysis with a grain of salt until Bremmer's prediction of disintegration in Libya comes true. He claims Libya will go the way of Iraq, without considering a small population of religously similar tribes. I sort of remember alot of shooting, car bombs and America hole up in the Green Zone in Iraq. His analysis of the EU is also half baked. Missing is the rebuilding of Libya, puffing up Southern European trade and development, as well as the savings Europe increasingly enjoys now from nearly 40% renewable energy. Take this analysis with a grain of salt until Bremmer’s prediction of disintegration in Libya comes true. He claims Libya will go the way of Iraq, without considering a small population of religously similar tribes. I sort of remember alot of shooting, car bombs and America hole up in the Green Zone in Iraq. His analysis of the EU is also half baked. Missing is the rebuilding of Libya, puffing up Southern European trade and development, as well as the savings Europe increasingly enjoys now from nearly 40% renewable energy.

]]> By: scythe http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/2011/11/11/europes-necessary-creative-destruction/#comment-130 scythe Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:54:59 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/?p=157#comment-130 Good to read a more productive and stimulating line of analysis. A welcome relief from the gossip and partisan headlines. Good to read a more productive and stimulating line of analysis.

A welcome relief from the gossip and partisan headlines.

]]> By: WhyADuck http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/2011/11/11/europes-necessary-creative-destruction/#comment-129 WhyADuck Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:09:42 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/ian-bremmer/?p=157#comment-129 All that is solid melts into air. All that is solid melts into air.

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