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Monday, 21 May 2012

G8 Summit: Send in the clowns!

Is this what failure looks like?

G-8: If empty rhetoric represents solutions, then the Summit at Camp David this weekend was a great success!

G8 leaders, all Eurozone members, Congress, lend me your ears! Austerity or growth, that is the question?

At this stage of the Eurozone crisis Greece is teetering on the edge of a cliff, looking more like the Priceline bus that ends up going over and crashing and burning, than country. Similarly, Italy and Spain are inching ever closer to the same precipice.

In the spirit of this "Greek Tragedy" that potentially awaits us, I have invoked a combination of two different Shakespeare works, Hamlet and Julius Caesar.

One might logically think that at this point the G-8 leaders would have some idea or consensus as to the best way to proceed to stave off a full-blown global financial meltdown. Listening to the statements issued at the end of the G8, it would seem that sadly they do not!

Read the article at The Political Commentator here.






Read the article at The Political Commentator here.

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