In a sentence, because the bailouts are funding an oppressive political regime. The bailouts allow the country to be run...
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Speaking to a broad spectrum of people in Greece I am starting to wonder if bank runs are a fiction...
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...
The Greek government is not prepared to compromise on this (more…)
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…)
There are many sources that carry detailed answers to these questions and I could argue they are all correct but...
Stefan Molyneux on his YouTube channel stefbot and on his website Freedomain Radio does warn us. As soon as someone...
From socialjusticefirst (more…)
A business man in Greece was highlighting how the actual tax rate on 20,000Euros earnings will be around 79% if...
At the moment the Greek government is unable to work out how they can stop spending more money than they...
There is talk about a complete private sector strike tomorrow in Greece as a protest at further tax increases. But...
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How the 11.7 billion Euro Greek government "cuts" breakdown and our analysis (more…)
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...
The New Statesman has got an attack piece on Niall Ferguson today, I like Niall Ferguson so I thought I'd...
I have written countless times on how the Greek government has such large structural problems that the only answer is...
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...
When I read this article about Nikos Dendias I had to check if the Golden Dawn, alleged Nazi Sympathisers had been...
I wrote a couple of weeks ago regarding the pledge of the new govenrment in Greece not to fire anymore...
In a word choice. Giving people a simple choice will cut the social security budget massively. (more…)
You probably already knew Moody's were clueless and not to be taken seriously. (more…)
Let me say from the off that I think Peter Schiff rocks but when it comes to austerity in Europe...
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...
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"...
Did Paul Tucker let the cat out of the bag during his testimony? Let me first repeat the them of...
This article is on James Petras's blog. There are some many contradictions in this one article I seriously doubt if...
To establish the fundamentals. The British Labour Party is socialist, therefore their broad mission is to protect the working class...
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom, and one of the two main British political parties along with the Conservative Party....
Russia Today commented on an article by Yannis Varoufakis regarding the ECB profiting by 840 million Euros on loans made...
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,...
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...
That is the only way I have to explain it. The new coalition government is creating some sort of fantasy...
From the LA Times - This is a continuation of this article By Veronique de Rugy May 18, 2012 Talks to...
In a word a draw. I don't see anyway for there to be a clear winner in the June elections....
The callous nature of Greek politicians never fails to amaze the outsider. (more…)
The mayor of Volos is the most forward thinking poltician I know of in Europe. He is encouraging something which...
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...
If there was party that had these political beliefs, would you vote for them? (more…)
The political pantomime continues. The leader of the Syriza communist party, Tsipras, has come out and claimed that the management...
Granted, I get a lot of my information second-hand but Syriza, the alternative communist party in Greece is getting airtime...
The big target for the Greek government has been to reduce the primary budget deficit (ie for the government to...
Reuters has a very broad article today outlining he possible consequences of a Greek exit from the Euro currency. It...
So a judge is not the prime minister of Greece. Here is an article explaining the situation in more detail....
I wrote an article back on the 4th of February outlining what a communist takeover of Greece would look like...
Listening to American talk radio it seems Americans have the idea that Europeans are unhappy because governments are cutting back....
In a word choice. Liberals/socialists love to say if the state was not there to provide healthcare & pensions, people...
So you have the 3 biggest parties at the last election refusing to speak to each other, even though their...
As usual Athens News carries an excellent article which I have included at the bottom. They break down the procedure...
Forget what you have been reading in the news, Greece is not suffering because of austerity, Greece is suffering because...
Countries with the lowest taxes in the world – Government revenue as a percentage of GDP (Wikipedia)
This article lists countries by total tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) for the listed countries. Three sources are used, one...
The money system of most countries of the world is based on the central banking business model. The business model...
I forget the website now, but it was basically a page of funny photos with a funny comment to go...
Governments make promises to do this or that. Except they are not the ones that have to pay for these...
The government is hinting it will introduce green taxes on home improvements such as boiler repairs and extensions like conservatories...
The NHS has been more expensive than private healthcare for a while. But today is the first day I saw...
Bailouts say banks can borrow as much money as they want, if the government can't pay the loans back directly...
Apparently Greek banks could need up to 50 billion Euros to stop them from becoming state entities. Ever since Gordon...
Nationalisation of Northern Rock From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia People queuing at a branch of theNorthern Rock bank in Brighton on 14 September...
Let me set the scene for the Charlie Rose the movie (more…)
I had the pleasure of speaking to a lady working in Greece today and she was explaining the new taxes...
I was speaking to some Greek on the weekend and they highlighted the issue of a manufacturer who exported to...