On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:51 AM, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, July 9, 2015 3:44 am, Charles Z Henry wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Patrick Shirkey >> <pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> when the global economy is turning to >>> custard >> >> The global economy is not presently turning into custard. It's >> healthy. The major austerity policies that have held back demand have >> been rolled back. Growth is up, and there's no major foreseeable >> problems threatening the GLOBAL economy right now (don't you fuck this >> up). >> > > It must be nice being on your planet. It seems that you consider QE to be > a rational way of growing the economy. > >> With unemployment down, employees have more leverage, can expect >> better salaries, working conditions (take it from me: I got hired at >> my current job in Nov 2008, and there was NObody hiring). Employees >> have more options now. >> > > Hardly. The employment market is not booming. Just limping along. Salaries > have gone down and employees are expected to work harder and longer to > secure their jobs if they can get one. > >> What folks in the EU need to be worried about this year is that the >> economy does not start shrinking as a result of Greece imploding, in >> terms of employment and inflation. In the EU, many smart people will >> be risk-averse to horizontal job movement. >> > > In several countries in the EU alone the situation has become a > humanitarian crisis. Don't ignore with the unprecedented numbers of > migrants flooding into the EU due to the idiotic wars that EU states are > enabling all over the world. > > What is painfully clear from this thread is that if this list is > representative of the wider market in Germany then a large number of you > folks over there are not feeling the heat like the rest of Europe. You > might consider it to be because of careful planning and German > resoluteness but other people in other parts of Europe see a massive > imbalance tilted in favour of Germany and Banksters rigging the system to > your advantage. > > It's highly likely that if the Grexit happens they will bypass the > conventional monetary system and go for a crypto currency. A comparison is > a bit like moving away from coal/nuclear to a distributed solar and wind > energy infrastructure. > > If that comes to pass there will be a major crises of confidence in normal > currencies and the Banksters won't be able to control the flow of > cash/resources to the same degree they do now. Sorry--you're right about a lot of things here. I should know better than to try to argue what the economic outlook really looks like. I've had another look and seen some data. I had been reading about the economic situation in Europe, but I didn't really know what it's like. Chuck _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
