This morning, Italy announced they are now in the 8th consecutive quarter of economic decline. Do you understand how crazy that is?
In the 9th floor, a cool air drafts around my slippers, sneaking in to touch my feet. The black tea in my mug gives off a warmth to the touch, and the paper between my fingers stains the skin lightly. Dim shadows from the clouds outside the windows provides the need for a lamp on the side table that casts humming of electricity, while I read.
Italy, and all of the EU, are subjecting themselves to needless pain, just so that some dim witted economists and politicians from the 90’s can continue to enjoy the benefits of a legacy!
The thread that holds the eurozone together has slipped and is now strangling the wearer. But these fools won’t cut themselves free from some misplaced fear of tattering the shirt!
Fine; they’ve chosen their coffin. Do you believe, dear man reading over my shoulder, that we are near a bottom, just because numbers came in “better than expected”? Wrong!
These policy wonks have been calling for a bottom, always two quarters out, for two consecutive years now. They fail because they fail to grasp the intricacies of the problem. The debt maturities are breaking against the wall. Each crest that is survived simply marks a trivial point before the next wall of water raises up.
There’s one path for Europa, and that is the destruction of the euro. They may dismantle the debt instruments directing it, or they may dilute it directly. Their cheap side games are distracting from the main choice at hand, which is that the continent cannot survive if it allows itself to be dragged beneath the surface, anchored by the stubborness of those that created this mess in the first place.
As we are now almost three years past the start of the EZ crisis, my fears of Europe derailing US markets is on soft footing. However, even if America should rise above our distant cousins, and leave us sitting, as here in my office, watching curiously as distant spectators, my sympathies for what our brothers are being wrongly subjugated to stand.
There is no reason that a quarter of Spain should be sitting idle. There is no reason that almost a fifth of Portugal should be in despair. There is no reason that over half of Greek youth should be permitted to sink into shambles of anarchy.
There is no reason for any of this, other than the pride of a few.
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Well said
No reason other than no one in the leadership there has had the gonads to make the tough calls.
Sounds a lot like Detroit……….