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2010-10-02 Economy

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Posted by Fred 2010-10-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 But good for individual European nations---these capable of austerity & work ethic.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-10-02 04:08|| 2010-10-02 04:08|| Front Page Top

#2 In Germany the jobless rate is falling steadily

Posted by European Conservative 2010-10-02 06:32|| 2010-10-02 06:32|| Front Page Top

#3 And cheap borrowing, easy credit, and unpayable debt is good for the EU?

Everybody in the West, repeat after me...."tThe value of my labor doesn't entitle me to live like a king".

Posted by no mo uro 2010-10-02 06:39|| 2010-10-02 06:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Meanwhile, the local Publix supermarket has started to stock German food next to the English food in the "ethnic" food aisle. Somebody got to buy all those "short-term rental properties" down here in the land of the mouse.

Posted by Guillibaldo Unusing2147 2010-10-02 08:01|| 2010-10-02 08:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Rodney Shakespeare is Visiting Professor of Binary Economics at Trisakti University, Jakarta where he teaches on the international postgraduate Islamic Economics and Finance program.

In other words, he's a crank.

Posted by phil_b 2010-10-02 20:54|| 2010-10-02 20:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Rodney Shakespeare is Visiting Professor of Binary Economics...

Shakespeare invented "binary economics", along with Robert Ashford, who seems to actually be a professor on the faculty of the Law School at Syracuse U.

There's a Wikipedia entry. The discussion section is...interesting. See archives 2 and 3, especially.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2010-10-02 21:52|| 2010-10-02 21:52|| Front Page Top

#7 "I have absolutely no idea what that means in simple English"

Neither does he, tw.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-10-02 23:20|| 2010-10-02 23:20|| Front Page Top

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