In a sentence, because the bailouts are funding an oppressive political regime. The bailouts allow the country to be run...
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I was reading this article in Athens News and it struck me (more…)
The latest story dominating the Greek media is something called a Lagarde list. The fact that the list is getting...
A short but very telling video about the Troika and Thomsen's view of the crisis that the Greek government is...
Is Tsipras and Syriza in general completely brainwashed or is their mission simply to make Greece a dependent on foreign...
Impact of Taxation on the Public (more…)
Intervention for Alcoholism or Drug Addiction An intervention is an orchestrated encounter between concerned parties & a government that has a dependency...
ADDICT POLITICIANS AND CITIZENS WITH AN ADDICT GOVERNMENT (more…)
ENABLING RELATIONSHIPS AND GOVERNMENT ADDICTION TO SPENDING - Helping Greeks to identify the problem, it's causes and proposing solutions. (more…)
Do you think you are an enabler of the Greek government or do you think your actions are actually helping?...
There are many sources that carry detailed answers to these questions and I could argue they are all correct but...
Beamed around the world has been Turkey's ambassador to the UN claiming Syria claimed responsibility for the shell that killed...
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The Greek government have announced their plan to reduce the tax-free limit that is in place based on the number...
Stefan Molyneux on his YouTube channel stefbot and on his website Freedomain Radio does warn us. As soon as someone...
America's fiscal union (more…)
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Reuters carries an article the long and the short being that Greece is on the road to recovery, however closer...
A business man in Greece was highlighting how the actual tax rate on 20,000Euros earnings will be around 79% if...
There is talk about a complete private sector strike tomorrow in Greece as a protest at further tax increases. But...
Obamacare is still in the news and all focus is on the increased healthcare costs but what no one is...
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I'm not sure if Rajoy is supposed to be left or right but his attitude to a Spanish bailout is...
How the 11.7 billion Euro Greek government "cuts" breakdown and our analysis (more…)
I think it is obvious to even the casual observer but I thought I would take the time to point...
The ND government in Greece are continuing their line that the Hellenic Post Bank is unviable. (more…)
I was watching a show documenting the lives of Met police officers who work with dogs. I'm a huge dog...
The man who is so popular he can hold his own convetion is banned from speaking at the Republican Party Convention in...
Tim Speiss was being interviewed by Bloomberg TV during a section named "Investor Worry: Entitlements, Stagnate Job Market" (video below)....
The mainstream media, the EU politicians & the markets seem completely oblivious to reality of what is going on in...
Athens News is reporting a mini revolution on a small Greek island where the islanders of Hydra trapped the police...
I am detailing constantly the completely fantasy that the Greek government is living in and today brought another example. (more…)
The New Statesman has got an attack piece on Niall Ferguson today, I like Niall Ferguson so I thought I'd...
If there was any doubt of the complete fantasy land that the current Greek government works within, this week brought another example....
The current government in Greece has pledged not to cut the government workforce, proposed liberalizations of protected industries such as...
Most of the media is saying that the answer to the crisis in the Euro is for the ECB to...
So Joseph Liebermann is concerned about cyber security. He thinks the government should get involved. (more…)
In a word choice. Giving people a simple choice will cut the social security budget massively. (more…)
Obama and Hollande in France get easy points by saying they will tax the rich. (more…)
I was speaking to a Greek lady yesterday and she was wondering what the effect would be in Greece now...
I was watching this video and it was talking about the number of visitors expected to Paul Fest, apparently the...
Bloomberg were covering a story this morning regarding a Senate investigation into HSBC's banking operations. It appeared to me as...
Something that is already widely known amongst politicians but apparently the media have just heard about it. The government manipulated...
This article outlines how the UK can eliminate the value reduction tax called VAT. VAT can be cut completely with...
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Value Added Tax (United Kingdom) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Taxation in the United Kingdom This article is part of...
So the news reports that Rajoy is following the same program of "austerity" as Greece. The effect that so-called "austerity"...
It is a common line by liberals that a Gold standard would be manipulated by the mega rich. The thinking...
ekathimerini.com came out with this editorial today (see bottom) and it is just the type of nonsense you would expect...
Enver Hoxha From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Not to be confused with Enver Hoxhaj. Enver Hoxha First Secretary of the Albanian Party of...
Even after 4 years the Greek government deficit is still over 2 billion Euros a month. When you look at...
A lot of things came out of Paul Tucker's testimony yesterday in front of a Commons Select Committee. The first was...
Did Paul Tucker let the cat out of the bag during his testimony? Let me first repeat the them of...
The World Socialist Website carried this article. And it is a prime display of ignorance and/or stupidity. Either that or...
To establish the fundamentals. The British Labour Party is socialist, therefore their broad mission is to protect the working class...
Russia Today commented on an article by Yannis Varoufakis regarding the ECB profiting by 840 million Euros on loans made...
Let me first apologise for the long winded podcast, I do it on my way to work and the traffic was particularly...
I'm watching the testimony live here http://www.livestation.com/en/bbc-world The point that is coming through in my mind is that the way LIBOR...
Athens News is reporting today that the Greek government will not cut public sector wages any further, the government will...
Athens News reports today that out of the 1 billion Euro bailout tranche paid to the Greek government in June,...
Bloomberg did a little piece of the LIBOR rate rigging scandal today. If you are the sort of person that...
The EU summit on the weekend has announced that banks could now get direct access to a country's tax revenue...
You would think Junker would have enough on his plate trying to implement his Eurobond idea but no. The next...
So what are Eurobonds? This is government debt which is backed by all the governments in the Eurozone. What is...
Government debt keeps getting larger even when adjusted for inflation. That’s it. For that reason alone governments trying to "help"...
Government debt keeps getting larger even when adjusted for inflation. That's it. That fact alone shows that Obama's government spending...
You read the mainstream media and the defining message is governments have to do something. or government has to act...
Einstein said the definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting a different result. If he were alive...
That is the only way I have to explain it. The new coalition government is creating some sort of fantasy...
The story goes that people are abused in sweatshops, that they work in inhumane conditions and people in the west...
The callous nature of Greek politicians never fails to amaze the outsider. (more…)
I ma having an interesting conversation on the blog. The blog is written by Yannis Varoofakis an excellent Greek economist. This is...
1. Fascist. You have the Spanish finance minister on TV categorically denying that the government has anything to do with...
This is a quote from Athens News today "If Greece unilaterally rejects the bailout deal it will be isolated for...
Crippled by debt, propped up by European powers, handicapped by an ineffective administration: uncompromising diagnoses of Greece’s ills are not...
"I .... think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in...