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To: TobagoJack who wrote (47421)	3/14/2009 4:58:25 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217847

A the floor disappears under the feet forces take over. Let's qualify and quantify the plunge. Let start with Minnows. Minnows will fall without even the scream being heard. Iceland Latvia... That because they were put up there by outside forces. That force no longer plunge without salvation. Of course if you are an Ireland put up there by a couple of comuter-makers and by money spread there by Germans once the plug is pulled you sink without not even being whatched. Another minnows type, like Taiwan is more lucky for it will be embraced by Big brother -so maligned until recently- to avoid plunging, irreversibly, into pineapple planting-fishing past. A minnow for so long on steroids, will look like Calif. governor today. Muscles vanished! That's Japan. It is going to be fastly join the minnow league as it returns to the insignificance that it came from. Once all is said and done, you will notice that countries will need a sizeable economy and political entity to have voice heard. Trying to be aminnow in a coalition such as Euroland no longer will work. The whole Scandinavia will become a SAS -that airline they have up there: A single entity emcompassing the whole region southern of Sannta Klaus homeland. The idea of spliting countries into smaller entities -a la Balkans- will challenged, and will be considered a hazzard. Because minnows is not going to be beautfull. Only size, huge sizes, will matter. But tell this to MQ and he will say otherwise.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (47421)	3/14/2009 5:19:52 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217847

Medium sized countries, still clinge to the idea that somehow, a magic force appears from somewhere and will arrest their fall. Germany is case in point. It put some money out to assist. Nationalized a couple of banks and now is waiting that the rest of the world kick in so that it will start exporting and everything will return to where it was before the debacle. It need to note that its citizens were promised a lot for when they got old. The first ones collected and run away. The last on the queue, will have little to rely on as not enough youngsters will put money in the Ponzi scheme called retirement. UK is now revisitng 1970 when it was ready to join the Third World -that means if the 3rd would accept it among its ranks. Saved for a while by de-regulation, dismantling of labor statism-socialism and most of by North Sea oil. Now have to face reality and will return to pre-British Empire size, and one will need to go to 1500 to see how it look like. France needs a huge marketing effort to sell food and drinks and make up itself to become a tourist destination for hordes of emerging markets people to go there and take photos. The Turkish people must be laughing their butts off for not have been accepted into the EU and now do not have to suffer the fate of the accepted ones.