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Iceland’s woes are interesting inasmuch as the rise of financial speculation and global money flows aren’t backed by tangible assets, for example gold.
As profits slow, the ruling elites opt for financial speculation with very obscure formulas.
The masterful and sinister part of this is that nations can be forced to cut basic services and investments in its citizens–and the global ruling elites can parasitically suck the life blood out of many advanced industrial societies.
Here in the US, the common refrain from both the person on the street, as well as the economic experts, is that it is Euro-socialism’s profligate ways, which punishes the valiant ‘achievers’, that need a correction.
The roots of the economic austerity in financial speculation doesn’t even get rudimentary or passing consideration–because the ‘experts’ that have the authority and the media presence to comment on these issues further’s the scam idea that Europe’s social safety net is untenable over the long-term.
This is a tremendous scam, but the population has been dumbed down for so long that most don’t have the requisite curiosity to investigate matters on a deeper level.
The market is indeed akin to the ‘invisible hand” of God. Would any decent person question the logic of God?
Crazy shit, but it is playing out before our very eyes.