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		<title>Lagarde and friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8221; OK Big Boy. Show me what you&#8217;ve got!&#8221;
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		<title>Today’s EU letter to Van Rompuy &amp; Barroso</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We meet in Brussels at a perilous moment for economies across Europe. Growth has stalled. Unemployment is rising. Citizens and businesses are facing their toughest conditions for years. As many of our major competitor economies grow steadily out of the gloom of the recent global crisis, financial market turbulence and the burden of debt renders the path to recovery in Europe much harder to climb.]]></description>
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		<title>Greece and the Moneylenders</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, there appears to be a general sigh of relief in Europe.  Stock Markets are climbing , driven by a new banker confidence. Positive noises are beginning to emanate from Eurozone Ministers. They are all looking forward to the approval of the latest Greek bailout. Will Monday 20th February 2012 really be the first day of the rest of our Euro lives?

Is it all over? Are we now scaling a slightly easier cliff to the upper plateau of Euro-prosperity? Will disaffected and now disenfranchised Greek people stay indoors and patiently wait 10 or 15 years while their "Neu" European Masters make things better?]]></description>
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		<title>Greek party leaders seek deal as bankruptcy looms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS
Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece (AP) &#8212; Greek party leaders on Tuesday will seek a long-delayed agreement on harsh cutbacks demanded to avoid looming bankruptcy, amid intense pressure from its bailout creditors to reach a deal, a general strike disrupting public services and thousands of protesters taking to the streets of Athens.
Heads of the three parties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quaint Liberals?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quaintness pervades British Society - from our cute little village tea rooms, the genetically coded-in inferiority complex of the working classes, Barristers' wigs to the way we run our Parliament and economy. We wear 21st century clothes which disguise 18th  and 19th century thinking.]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: From Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.]]></description>
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		<title>Greece: the new USSR?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[USSR 1980

Greece 2011
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		<title>EU official: Greece needs extra $20 billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Greece needs about an extra euro15 billion ($20 billion) to get its debt down to manageable levels — and the rest of 17-country eurozone is being asked to help foot the bill.

Debt-ridden Greece is close to a deal with private investors to reduce its debt burden by about euro100 billion and that — plus an agreement to enact deep spending cuts — could pave the way for a euro130 billion bailout from its European partners and the International Monetary Fund. But on Thursday a European Union official said this plan was not enough to help fix Greece's problems, which are getting worse as the effects of the recession take hold.

In order to bring Greece's debt burden to a sustainable level — 120 per cent of its economic output in eight years' time — the country's international debt inspectors calculate that Greece needs an additional euro15 billion — a shortfall it believes should be made up by the rest of the 17-country eurozone, the European official. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter]]></description>
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		<title>Eurozoneski?</title>
		<link>http://www.spygun.com/richard-ruzyllo/eurozoneski</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.spygun.com/?p=9316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past, I have pointed out that none of the Eurozone summits has ever produced any "action points".

Action points should be very much more than vague statements of unspecific intent. Proper action points should contain elements such as amount or time.

In addition, there has been a noticeable increase in the use of  a very strange new language . It has been used by Eurozone leaders during their various pronouncements over the last (many) months.

The rhetoric adopted by current Eurozone Commissars is frighteningly similar to the  Soviet-style nonsense spouted by dead-eyed Party apparatchiks in the 1960s. It is the empty "old-school"  Party-designed exhortatory language of the minor government Soviet official.]]></description>
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		<title>Fred Goodwin in good company!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Goodwin has never been convicted of anything, he has not been censured by any regulator, yet the very obscure and to most of us, hitherto unknown Forfeiture Committee has recommended to the Queen that he be stripped of his knighthood. This committee (apparently) is non-political and consists of several high ranking civil servants as well as the  head Treasury lawyer.

But what motivated this unusual and cruel punishment? Why exactly was Fred Goodwin stripped of his Knighthood?

In the absence of concrete reasons, it seems that Fred Goodwin was tenderised by the media, before being served up to the baying mob.  A sacrificial lamb with our  howling political leaders elbowing themselves to the front of the queue.

Deputy Conservative Chairman,Michael Fallon says, "Ministers don't control the timings of the forfeiture committee, this is an entirely independent committee of civil servants."]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Different Attitudes……….</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.spygun.com/?p=9264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[American father to his son: &#8221; See that man son? That&#8217;s Stephen Hester. He&#8217;s Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland. That&#8217;s a VERY big bank and the British government hired Mr Hester to put things right after it was left in a bit of a mess. He&#8217;s very successful and if YOU study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In defence of Stephen Hester!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RBS Chief Executive Stephen Hester has a very challenging job. He has to get to grips with the quagmire of accounting and organisational disorder bequeathed to the taxpayer by his predecessor Sir Fred Goodwin. So far, Stephen Hester does not appear to have put a foot wrong but in spite of that, he is fast [...]]]></description>
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