I recently read Michael Lewis’
The Big Short
, a generic ativan prescription very instructive book on the recent financial that looks at the generic ativan prescription crisis from the point of view those who made money from generic ativan prescription it. So when I learnt from the Planet Money blog that generic ativan prescription he has written a piece for Vanity Fair on the country I now call home, I decided to generic ativan prescription give it a look. Apart from a fair amount of information on the generic ativan prescription apparent obsession of Germans with the human rear-end and what comes out of it, bits of the generic ativan prescription article are about German bankers, Germans and the financial crisis, and generic ativan prescription Germany and the future of the euro.
On Germans bankers and the crisis:
They lent money to generic ativan prescription American subprime borrowers, to Irish real-estate barons, to Icelandic banking tycoons to generic ativan prescription do things that no German would ever do. The German losses are generic ativan prescription still being toted up, but at last count they stand at $21 billion in the Icelandic banks, $100 billion in Irish banks, $60 billion in various U.S. subprime-backed bonds, and generic ativan prescription some yet-to-be-determined amount in Greek bonds. The only financial disaster in the generic ativan prescription last decade German bankers appear to have missed was investing with Bernie Madoff. (Perhaps the generic ativan prescription only advantage to the German financial system of having no Jews.) In their own country, however, these seemingly crazed bankers behaved with restraint. The German people did not allow them to generic ativan prescription behave otherwise.
On Germany and the future of the euro:
Either Germans must agree to generic ativan prescription a new system in which they would be fiscally integrated with other European countries as Indiana is generic ativan prescription integrated with Mississippi: the tax dollars of ordinary Germans would go into a generic ativan prescription common coffer and be used to pay for the lifestyle of ordinary Greeks. Or the generic ativan prescription Greeks (and probably, eventually, every non-German) must introduce “structural reform,” a generic ativan prescription euphemism for magically and radically transforming themselves into a people as efficient and generic ativan prescription productive as the Germans. The first solution is pleasant for Greeks but painful for generic ativan prescription Germans. The second solution is pleasant for Germans but painful, even suicidal, for generic ativan prescription Greeks.
There is generic ativan prescription not much of the substance here that those who know a generic ativan prescription little about the financial crisis and are familiar with Germany wouldn’t know, but still, it generic ativan prescription is worth the read, if only to learn about German obsessions with the generic ativan prescription said derrière and what comes out of it. The piece is here.
By the way, I haven’t been able to find a German who will confirm the obsessions.
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