Spain hits 24% unemployment

What these closet Marxists don't get is that government produces NOTHING. Wealth and prosperity originates in the private sector. All these countries who have shifted toward government control of capital are tanking...

And there they sit, clamoring for more!
 
So the central planners idea of spending what you don't have did NOT lead to prosperity?

I for one am shocked, shocked I tell you!

BBC News - Spanish unemployment hits record 5.64 million

Responses from the "They just didn't spend enough!" crowd in 3...2...1...

Eh, Spain's been in austerity mode for over a year - watching their economy collapse as they attempt to cut, cut and more cut their way to prosperity.

Ditto, England.

Ditto, Greece.

The sad part is that England could actually do something about their problem if they wanted. Spain and Greece have ceded that authority to France and Germany.
 
"Spain fell into an economic downturn in 2008 due to the collapse of its housing market, and economic conditions worsened when it became clear how entrenched the country’s unregulated savings banks were in the real estate market."

Just like here, the economic collapse in Spain was caused by the PRIVATE SECTOR / housing market and banks.

"III. Spain: A Flourishing Economy

In order to join the EU, the Maastricht Treaty requires that countries converge on certain criteria, including interest rates, inflation rates, and government deficits. Since 1990, Spain had faced budget deficits as large as 6.5% of GDP. Because of the strict requirements in the Maastricht Treaty, by 2005 the Spanish government began posting budget surpluses.

The Maastricht Treaty also called for Spain to reduce its long-term interest rates. As a result, businesses and individuals saw their borrowing capacities increase because they could afford paying loans with lower interest rates. More people, especially those in their twenties who had recently graduated from a university, took out loans to purchase homes. Traditionally in Spain, the younger generation lived with their families after school until they married, but in the past ten years, more bought their own residences before marriage because obtaining credit was easy and interest rates were low.

The construction market flourished because of the increased demand for housing. As more Spaniards bought houses, more construction companies required unskilled labor which prompted an increase in immigration to Spain’s labor market. From 2000-2008, Spain’s population grew from 40 million to 45 million, and from 1999 until 2007 the Spanish economy created more than one-third of all employment generated in the Eurozone. As more immigrants came to Spain, more housing was necessary and the cycle continued. During this time, prices of houses increased dramatically, as did the number of loans used to purchase them. The construction market continued to build, heedless that the growing housing market would inevitably begin to cool.

IV. Crisis in Spain

Because of the dramatic increase in construction of new homes and the long time between the beginning and end of a construction project, by the time the demand for housing had slowed in 2007, available housing was just reaching its peak. By this time, construction accounted for 13 percent of total employment in Spain. When prices began falling and housing demand halted, unemployment jumped up 10 percent.

As unemployment skyrocketed, so did unemployment benefits. In a welfare state like Spain, unemployment benefits are generous. However, what was a sustainable unemployment level quickly became a drain on the Spanish government. The reduction in the Spanish government’s tax revenue, which is heavily dependent on real estate, exacerbated the problem. These drains on the economy turned a previous budget surplus of over 2 percent of GDP into a deficit of almost 4 percent of GDP, violating the limits of the Pact."

The Spanish Financial Crisis | University of Iowa Center for International Finance and Development
 
Just think what a 50% unemployment rate could do for the economy with all those disposable unemployment compensation dollars................................lol
 
So the central planners idea of spending what you don't have did NOT lead to prosperity?

I for one am shocked, shocked I tell you!

BBC News - Spanish unemployment hits record 5.64 million

Responses from the "They just didn't spend enough!" crowd in 3...2...1...

Eh, Spain's been in austerity mode for over a year - watching their economy collapse as they attempt to cut, cut and more cut their way to prosperity.

Ditto, England.

Ditto, Greece.

The sad part is that England could actually do something about their problem if they wanted. Spain and Greece have ceded that authority to France and Germany.

Thanks for so quickly proving my point..."They just didn't spend enough". Wow, just wow.

Decades of central planning for Spain, a year of "austerity", including massive tax hikes. Well I'm shocked they're not rocking their economy. Shocked!
 
So the central planners idea of spending what you don't have did NOT lead to prosperity?

I for one am shocked, shocked I tell you!

BBC News - Spanish unemployment hits record 5.64 million

Responses from the "They just didn't spend enough!" crowd in 3...2...1...

Eh, Spain's been in austerity mode for over a year - watching their economy collapse as they attempt to cut, cut and more cut their way to prosperity.

Ditto, England.

Ditto, Greece.

The sad part is that England could actually do something about their problem if they wanted. Spain and Greece have ceded that authority to France and Germany.

Thanks for so quickly proving my point..."They just didn't spend enough". Wow, just wow.

Decades of central planning for Spain, a year of "austerity", including massive tax hikes. Well I'm shocked they're not rocking their economy. Shocked!

I wouldn't bother much with an economic discussion with that guy. He didn't even know what a 'bond' was in the other thread.
 
So the central planners idea of spending what you don't have did NOT lead to prosperity?

I for one am shocked, shocked I tell you!

BBC News - Spanish unemployment hits record 5.64 million

Responses from the "They just didn't spend enough!" crowd in 3...2...1...

Eh, Spain's been in austerity mode for over a year - watching their economy collapse as they attempt to cut, cut and more cut their way to prosperity.

Ditto, England.

Ditto, Greece.

The sad part is that England could actually do something about their problem if they wanted. Spain and Greece have ceded that authority to France and Germany.

Thanks for so quickly proving my point..."They just didn't spend enough". Wow, just wow.
Oh, I see - you're making shit up.

I expected nothing else.
 
Eh, Spain's been in austerity mode for over a year - watching their economy collapse as they attempt to cut, cut and more cut their way to prosperity.

Ditto, England.

Ditto, Greece.

The sad part is that England could actually do something about their problem if they wanted. Spain and Greece have ceded that authority to France and Germany.

Thanks for so quickly proving my point..."They just didn't spend enough". Wow, just wow.
Oh, I see - you're making shit up.

I expected nothing else.

Well gosh, I'm sorry. You did NOT imply Spain wasn't spending enough when you stated "Spain's been in austerity mode for over a year - watching their economy collapse as they attempt to cut, cut and more cut their way to prosperity."?

What exactly did you mean by that statement then?
 
Thanks for so quickly proving my point..."They just didn't spend enough". Wow, just wow.
Oh, I see - you're making shit up.

I expected nothing else.

Well gosh, I'm sorry. You did NOT imply Spain wasn't spending enough when you stated "Spain's been in austerity mode for over a year - watching their economy collapse as they attempt to cut, cut and more cut their way to prosperity."?

What exactly did you mean by that statement then?

I meant that Spain has ceded its sovereign right to fiscal and monetary policy to Germany and France due to debt levels well below any sign of trouble. Before the ECB penalized them, Spain's debt to GDP was about 40%. Not high by any means relative the rest of the world.

Creating a run on Spanish debt and driving up their borrowing rates made even moderate levels of debt unsustainable - and Spain can't respond because they ceded that power.
 
I meant that Spain has ceded its sovereign right to fiscal and monetary policy to Germany and France due to debt levels well below any sign of trouble.

So, stated differently, Spain had no spending or debt problems and that was what caused them to have to cede their ability to take fiscally responsible steps to other countries, even though there was no need to take fiscally responsible steps. Okay.
 
I meant that Spain has ceded its sovereign right to fiscal and monetary policy to Germany and France due to debt levels well below any sign of trouble.

So, stated differently, Spain had no spending or debt problems and that was what caused them to have to cede their ability to take fiscally responsible steps to other countries, even though there was no need to take fiscally responsible steps. Okay.

No.

Spain had very little debt problem until the financial crisis hit. Then, they were unable to respond appropriately - because they ceded their monetary policy long ago. That drove up borrowing costs, started a spiral of falling confidence and at the same time, France and Germany used the opportunity to require them to hand over fiscal control.
 
Why would any American ecnomic policy maker, influencer, or lawmaker want to adopt pollicies that move into the direction of Spain, Greece, etc?
 
They had 24% UE when I was there 1994-5. Kudos to THEIR corrupt housing/construction/banking industries jumping on the Pub corruption bandwagon. I believe a Socialist in France will help fight the German-led austerity overkill. Especially since Spain has one of the lowest debts in the modern world.

It's great the way dittoheads have a one size fits all braindead solution for everything. Especially when their idiots started all the recessions and depressions the world has seen.

I know, tax cuts for the rich and destroy Medicare! Idiots.
 

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