Thank you for the enjoyable read of your fine writing. I have a few questions here...1. Do you believe American's QE to be the real major if not the only reason for its economic recovery? 2. you wrote about GDP is no more the best indicative about many countries' economic development /well beings...why used it to judge and compare this time? I fear GDP numbers still hugely mislead many most countries re setting their economic policies, esp when people /planet are under climage change pressure if not crisis. 3.There are so many different countries/races/cultures within EU, some are very well off while some others are much worse off economically, Do you see Euro the single currenty to be more of a problem than cure to some countries? 4. About Japan, I feel many of their officials as well the public still see Chinese as a less fine race than Japanese, this attitude influences many of their policy making, which often they didn't choose the direction which would benefit Japan most...(???)
Good to hear from you again. How is the demonstration against TPP going?
Regarding your questions:
1. Without the QE, the US economy would have dived to great depth. Even if it eventually recovers, the GDP level will still be much lower than pre-2007.
2. GDP is not perfect, but it is convenient, so I use it for the sake of economy (pun intended).
3. Euro has been great for Germany and other export countries, not so good for the PIGS. Overall, though, Europe is better off with it than without.
4. Yes, tribal bias ends up hurting oneself. Kind of a poetic justice.
frances
2015-08-23 00:00
btw, this incompetent and irresponsbile Nat govt kept tell Kiwis we are better off then Greece while continued to bring us down, and most Asian immigrants (huge numbers )arriving in Nats govt's terms (cuttently the third term) believed so, too. Chinese and Indian/Philippine immigrants believe all govts are corrupt, and NZ is not so bad companred to their home countries -without knowing how much "cleaner" NZ govt used to be...sorry i must stop talking too much
International capital has achieved total victory in the US and is now fanning out over the globe to invade other governments. It is sad to see no safe haven is left.
frances
2015-08-23 00:00
thank you for answers and your asking...activism is a hard road to travel..not understood by many...I am not radical at all but seen by most locals /Asian immigrants as "mad"...somtimes i got abused by those my cause tried to help most...many asked why do i still throw my lfie away (none was paid work) when in reality we hardly changed the result in parliament (Nat party got one vote majority)...I replied 1. I have to do something for the future of my own children and others' children hopefully 2. Imagine if we don't make any noise to protest against govt's bad policies which screw almost all kiwis and the NZ environment, this corrupt govt will believe they can get away with murder and do much worse 3. yes sometimes i feel we activists are like dogs barking loudly chasing the runaway train driven by this mad driver (J Key the PM) rushing to the eco/env destruction, we tried to get passengers on board to get off the train but the train moving so fast and the engine so loud therefore hardly no one can hear us...but being a dog, I can't help it, i still must bark... Lastly about TPP, we had good crowds in most cities (over 10k in AKL, 4k in Christchurch), etc. But honestly i know if tpp goes ahead or not mostly depends on what's heppening in US (& JPN), we an only do so much (or so little when we have no funds available to promote general awareness, after i spent 4 years fighting this, still many people on the streets asked me what TPP stands for , a few weeks ago - while this rotten govt spends neatly 30 millions on two referredum for flag change which only pushed by PM only... a few years ago J Key accused us of wanting to waste 3 millions for a referrendum (against state owned Ent. sales-privatization)...it took thousands of volunteers on the streets for a year to collect more than 100,000 signatures to just make the referrendom happen, the result was over 65% were against it, but they govt still went ahead claimming it's the ref. result wasn't binding... a govt like this, what can you say? sorry for being super lengthy here..feel free to erase it
You know that NZ is one of the "resource exporting countries" I talked about, right? The economy is going to get tough really quickly, and I think big businesses are going to mobilize the media to blame it on activists. Good luck on fighting for a good cause.
the speed for changing seems too fast in my view ; small people usually are those ones who suffer from incorrect policies...shouldn't they Touching stones when crossing river (step by step)...I personally feel it's not going to be so simple (do A => get B )...The general public's strong belief/trust in holding/keeping USD (not only in China) will not change dramatically because PRC's policy changing fast...Do you see the connection? i don't know enough in economics
If the US dollar keeps depreciating for a few years, most people will switch to stronger international currencies.