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Spanish House Prices Plunge Again!
It is well known that Spain's economy is in a depression, and we do not use this term lightly. With the official unemployment rate at about 23% and youth unemployment close to 50% it is not an exaggeration to speak of a depression. The probability of social upheaval erupting with greater frequency is extremely high. We already noted that the general strike recently called for by Spain's unions is only the fifth since the end of the Franco regime in 1975. It is a rare event in Spain and underscores the decline in the social mood and the growing desperation. Those who still have work want to protect their privileges and use the unemployed as their political weapon.
Meanwhile, Spain's banks are quietly sinking beneath the waves. They are the quintessential zombies, especially the insolvent cajas, which are drowning in real estate related assets that see the value of their collateral inexorably spiraling down the drain (as an aside here: the Fed's recent 'stress test' of US banks possibly has not taken sufficient account of this 'moving target problem'; as we have seen mentioned elsewhere, it also failed to consider the remote possibility that treasury bonds may decline more than it currently widely expected).
But let's return to Spain. The WSJ reports on the latest house price data, and keep in mind here that these are the 'official' and hence doctored in every imaginable way, data. The plunge in house prices is in fact accelerating.
http://www.acting-man.com/?p=15578
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Spain – The Next Domino Is Getting Ready To Tumble Spanish House Prices Plunge Again!
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Posted 17 March 2012 - 04:12 PM
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Investors should abide by money management principals & never risk more than they can afford to lose.
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Investors should abide by money management principals & never risk more than they can afford to lose.
There are No guarantees when investing in the Stock Market or Precious Metals. You might lose all your money and cry.
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Posted 17 March 2012 - 04:53 PM
Spain could be fined because they don't have enough money
http://www.telegraph...-and-grave.html
Or they may be looked on as a special case and not have to stick to the new fiscal rules
http://us2.campaign-...19&e=e319ec6e27
Here's the head of the eurogroup and PM of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker with Spain's economy minister Luis de Guindos
http://www.telegraph...-and-grave.html
Or they may be looked on as a special case and not have to stick to the new fiscal rules
http://us2.campaign-...19&e=e319ec6e27
Here's the head of the eurogroup and PM of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker with Spain's economy minister Luis de Guindos
If you say "democorruptcy" quickly, it sounds a bit like "democracy". In a "democracy" people vote for politicians who represent their interests. In the UK's "democorruptcy" people can only vote for expense fiddling thieving MPs who are in the hip pocket of big business and the finance sector.
The Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) is stealing from savers to make them pay for crimes by bankers. Via lower interest on savings, all the bank fines for PPI, LIBOR and interest rates swaps are now being paid by savers so that bankers can keep pocketing bonuses.
"We need to make a really big change: from an economy built on debt to an economy built on savings" - David Camoron Jan 2009
"Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed" - George Osborne Jan 2009
- So what do Camoron & Osborne do? Print money and leave interest rates at 0.5% when inflation is over 5%
If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man -- and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages -- it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
http://classiclit.ab...en-Part-2_4.htm
Did you recognise the two robbers in my avatar? Clue: One got a knighthood and inflation linked pension, the other a 150 year prison sentence.
The Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) is stealing from savers to make them pay for crimes by bankers. Via lower interest on savings, all the bank fines for PPI, LIBOR and interest rates swaps are now being paid by savers so that bankers can keep pocketing bonuses.
"We need to make a really big change: from an economy built on debt to an economy built on savings" - David Camoron Jan 2009
"Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed" - George Osborne Jan 2009
- So what do Camoron & Osborne do? Print money and leave interest rates at 0.5% when inflation is over 5%
If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man -- and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages -- it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
http://classiclit.ab...en-Part-2_4.htm
Did you recognise the two robbers in my avatar? Clue: One got a knighthood and inflation linked pension, the other a 150 year prison sentence.
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Posted 17 March 2012 - 04:59 PM
Mike Shedlock (author of one of the best economics blogs on the net) agrees...
http://globaleconomi...-47-of-ecb.html
We will soon see that Greece was a drop in the ocean compared with the timebomb that is Spain and Italy.
http://globaleconomi...-47-of-ecb.html
We will soon see that Greece was a drop in the ocean compared with the timebomb that is Spain and Italy.
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