Saturday, January 14, 2012

"the financial problems facing the eurozone are as much a consequence of rising external imbalances and divergences in competitiveness between the EMU’s core and the so-called “periphery”. "

S&P on the sovereign down grades

the real driver is well understood by our  neo lib guardians

lower wages along the med and thru out latin europe

pk sees the line here ..i got it from his blog
but he fails to realize remedy can be as draconian as the fiscal tightening

btw /wrt pk seems to under play the differential expansion side
of the fiscal thrust busting

and he knows his romney robinson

internal devaluation by reducing the social transfer burdens of the wage force
and corporations
ie shifting to purer forms of vat  basing
ie mass consumption taxes

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of course the real social engineers solution would involve a mark up market in each national unit of the zone
and a centrally agrred on pattern of  national price level changes

germany the highest greece the lowest etc

this would require germany to stop its beggar thy neighbor games
of the past 15 years

teutonic hard choices of the german wage class not rewarded ???

that suggests class sacrifice is not in order here
any more then wage class demand restraint ever should be

why ??

because non zone based forex fiddled  wage arbitrage games will now  emerge
as dominant clipping german exports

hell  its all  happened b4 many cycles of it all