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Should Germany leave the Euro?

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@Fat Tails, well done.

I'm amazed that you had the patience or the stomach for it.

Bob.

I actually got annoyed around the 5th statement, but then decided to continue. I had the option to stop writing, but I was unable to accept the sunk cost, and I had to continue.

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i definitely agree the best solution for the EUR zone would be if germany left the EUR. the EUR is very bad for the european idea. with such different economies it is insane to put then all together in the same currency.

though it will never happen. France and Marine le Pen is the hope of europe to terminate the EUR experiment. i am from germany and recently moved to the U.S. for work. but honestly, it does not really matter anymore what germany does or does not do. the german government is just the most criminal in the entire world and suffering from severe insanety. and the people many are just stupid sleepers. it is now a fallen country. Actually I consider myself a refugee from this insanety.

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i definitely agree the best solution for the EUR zone would be if germany left the EUR. the EUR is very bad for the european idea. with such different economies it is insane to put then all together in the same currency.

though it will never happen. France and Marine le Pen is the hope of europe to terminate the EUR experiment. i am from germany and recently moved to the U.S. for work. but honestly, it does not really matter anymore what germany does or does not do. the german government is just the most criminal in the entire world and suffering from severe insanety. and the people many are just stupid sleepers. it is now a fallen country. Actually I consider myself a refugee from this insanety.


This response is a bit simplistic.

It is not only Germany that should leave the Euro, but it would be all countries which do not have the habit of making electoral gifts and promises that they cannot keep. There is a cultural gap between the Latin countries which have a long history of not collecting taxes and overspending and Central and Northern Europe.

Therefore you would rather see two groups of countries

Group A: Germany, Finnland, Estonia, Lithuania Letland, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Czech Republic, Slowakia, Austria, Slowenia, who can pretty well manage their budgets and live with a stronger currency.

Group B: France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus.

The reason that the EURO does not work for Europe is a strong cultural heritage that makes it impossible to adopt to a common currency. Having a common currency for Central/Northern and Latin Europe makes as much sense as having a common currency for the US and Mexico.

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How did you manage to put all that nonsense into just 11 lines? As a European I feel insulted by such an amount of ignorance.
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(10)"I could swear half of Germany is gay and other parts of Southern Europe are families and procreators." I think that you are still living in the 19th century. How backwardish can Southerners in the US be to publish such silly statements? You sound like some of the Russian or Chinese politicians.

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not sure about Russian or Chinese politician but def. a Trump follower.

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I think that you are still living in the 19th century. How backwardish can Southerners in the US be to publish such silly statements? You sound like some of the Russian or Chinese politicians.

Please do some research and stop insulting foreigners, other religious groups or minorities such as homosexuals. One of my neighbours is an Italian, another one a homosexual (who has adopted two kids) and a third one is a moslem from Kurdistan. I am friends with all of them.

You of anyone would know about Germany and the euro. I appreciate your local perspective on the matter.

I agreed with you completely until you hypocritically asked not to insult foreigners and did the very same thing.

But as an american from the south some of us still believe that homosexuality is a sin against GOD. I have friends like you mention from different faiths, no faith, and homosexual friends as well. I don't judge their choices, only my own. But some of us believe The Bible and it's truths. You want to call it backwardish and ignorant, go ahead. But don't get offended about someone disagreeing with you and then insist they are ignorant because they believe different from you.

Maybe this guy you called out got what he deserved for stirring the pot, but don't throw some blanket statement out there about the dumb southerners and their backward ways. There are alot of great people here.

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Group B: France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus.

France in Group B..... !?

... but I still agree with Soros : Germany should leave the Euro to give the rest of the Eurozone a realistic chance of finding some form of equilibrium; it will be impossible to do so with Germany in the mix. As Germany would refuse to leave - too much to lose by doing so - the Eurozone is screwed.

Next on the agenda : Brexit !

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I agreed with you completely until you hypocritically asked not to insult foreigners and did the very same thing.

But as an american from the south some of us still believe that homosexuality is a sin against GOD. I have friends like you mention from different faiths, no faith, and homosexual friends as well. I don't judge their choices, only my own. But some of us believe The Bible and it's truths. You want to call it backwardish and ignorant, go ahead. But don't get offended about someone disagreeing with you and then insist they are ignorant because they believe different from you.

Maybe this guy you called out got what he deserved for stirring the pot, but don't throw some blanket statement out there about the dumb southerners and their backward ways. There are alot of great people here.

Yes, I did the very same thing to make him feel the way I felt. And yes, I agree that there are lot of great people in the South. And yes, Donald Trump was not born in the South but in New York City.

The key point that you mentioned is "that you do not judge their choices". This is what makes for a peaceful and friendly living together. However, any society is founded upon a common set of rules and beliefs. But those are not necessarily religious.

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Yes, I did the very same thing to make him feel the way I felt. And yes, I agree that there are lot of great people in the South. And yes, Donald Trump was not born in the South but in New York City.

The key point that you mentioned is "that you do not judge their choices". This is what makes for a peaceful and friendly living together. However, any society is founded upon a common set of rules and beliefs. But those are not necessarily religious.

@Fat Tails, not only are you a tremendous coder and trader, you are a true gentleman. You are a great asset to this community and I appreciate you sir.

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Europe is different from the United States. It has a long history of national states, which explains its current federal structure.

Britain:

First of all Britain would never accept to cede power to a Central European Government. Also Britain does not participate in the ESM (European Stability Mechanism). It share in financing the permanent Greek deficit is zero. It is the German taxpayer who carries the burden to finance the Greek party.

France:

France is much more reluctant to cede powers to a Central Government than Germany is. However, they may change position, once they need someone else to finance the budget deficit.


Germany:

Germany has been the paymaster of Europe since its inception. Germans are now tired of paying for the permanent inefficiencies of Southern European economies. This is even more true of Skandinavian countries. Norway has not joined the European Union, and Sweden and Danmark have kept their currency. Finland is the European country most opposed to throw more fresh money after the Greeks.


I think that there is a strong cultural difference between Northern and Southern Europe. Southern European politicians have a natural tendency to promise more than they can pay for. The shadow economy is flourishing in Southern Europe. Citizens are not declaring taxes, which further contributes to the problem.


Three solutions to the problem:

(1) Reforming the structure of the European Union with a Central Economic Government. The Government should then have its own budget, which would require specific European taxes and control of expenditure by the European Parliament.

(2) The second model would see a rigid structure as it is implemented today, but would allow some of the debt ridden economies to devaluate its currencies.

(3) The third solution would be the slow decay of the Euro currency, probably triggered by outside events.

I do not believe that there is an option for something called "Europe à deux vitesses", which describes a split of the Euro zone into a robust Northern economy and a Southern inflationary economy running higher budget deficits.


What is Europe ?

The point is that Europe is an extremely inhomogenous strucutre. There are countries like Bulgaria with a per capita income of € 7,772 or Romania with € 10,034. On the other side of the scale there are countries like Ireland with an income of € 51,356, Austria with € 51,306 or Denmark with € 56,147.

Now compare these figures with the US. The richest states, Delaware and Alaska have a per capita income of just above $ 60,000 per annum, while the poorest state - Mississippi - has a per capita income of just below $ 30,000 per year. By the way this figure is absolutely comparable to Greece.

To summarize: In Europe the per capita income of the poorest country is about 7.5 times lower than the per capita income of the richest country. In the USA - which did not have half of its states being rules by communists 25 years ago - the per capita income of the poorest country is only 2 times lower than the per capita income of the richest country.

But then in Europe, it is not the poorest countries that have recently joined which are creating the problem. It is the comparatively rich Southern European economies which do not comply with the strict rules of controlling government expenditure. I think this is more of a cultural problem. Now Germany is blamed for maintaining the minimum of discipline which is needed to avoid an implosion of the Euro. Those who cry loudest are left wing economists who want to maintain the state run Ponzi schemes and feed them with new money. I am definitely against transferring more money to the comparatively rich and lazy. Greece is just a stupid distraction from more serious problems as the various war zones around Europe and the hundreds of thousands of refugees we need to cope with.

I am with Paul Krugmann and with the German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble. The best economical cure for Greece would have been to reintroduce the Drachma and devalue it. This cure has helped Argentine to find its way to sustained economic growth. But politically, the Greek people would not have accepted this measure and (wrongly) interpreted as an expulsion from Europe. Therefore the whole thing ended with a compromise. Things will calm down now, and co-operation will again prevail over demagoguery.

Excellent analysis of the European situation. Of course many months have passed and the Greece odissey is in the rearview mirror. Personally I think it was despicable both how the Greeks were treated and, at the same time, the gamble that Tsipras took with a referendum which, in the end, harmed Greece more than not.

@Fat Tails, of the 3 options you listed I believe that 'technically' what should happen if the 'EU project' is to succeed long term is go down the Option 1 route, i.e. the creation of a United States of Europe structure where not only economic policy but also fiscal policy is centralised.

Of course that won't fly in reality. No head of state/politician will ever relinquish such powers to a higher authority and de facto abdicate their country's sovereignty. I don't see it happening anyway.
So we're stuck with huge cultural differences, especially between the northern and the 'peripheral economies' with the public opinion of the former negatively biased towards the latter. Who can blame them? When a German pensioner who's always paid taxes lives now on a pension of 1,300 Euros but then hears that we have in Greece ex postal workers on pensions as high as 4,000 Euros (extreme cases probably but, still) and Greece/Italy (for instance) are not known for honoring taxes as much as them, I would probably be pretty mad too.

On the other hand, I agreed with Varoufakis when he said that the proposals put forward by the EU (signing a deal for a new loan, only to pay the debt of the previous one) was simply akin to kicking the can down the road. He said that he explained from a technical point of view to his EU counterparts why that was not viable but he could not engage them in an economics discussion. If true, it's disappointing.

Anyway, we are where we are.

I don't understand Option 2. How can you devalue a common EU currency in a EU country but not in another?

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