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« Reply #1850 on: April 19, 2012, 02:49:13 PM »

Then in 96 the new Social Democratic PM cut the budget so much his base revolted and went voting for the commies, and kept a really tight austerity budget, and it worked and that is the reason Sweden is not part of the crisis today. 

The reason Sweden is not part of the crisis is because they're not part of the Eurozone.

As much as I hate the Euro, the Euro itself has very little to do with wether a country's economy had a crisis or not. Some countries with the Euro, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg managed to do just fine, and some countries without it had it's economy fail misrable, such as Iceland. So no, not being part of the Euro is not what saved Sweden, although not having to bail out five, six other countries does help.

What is true though, is that being part of the Euro is a major block for Greece's and Spain's financial recovery. If they had their own currency, they could simply devalue it, which would make it cheaper for foreigner's to trade and tourism with the countries. If it's cheaper trade increases (as does tourism) and the economy slowly starts rolling again. Unfortunatley, since they thought it good policy to surrender their own currency they can't do that. So while the Euro didn't cause the problem it is making the problem worse.       
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« Reply #1851 on: April 19, 2012, 03:45:14 PM »

Then in 96 the new Social Democratic PM cut the budget so much his base revolted and went voting for the commies, and kept a really tight austerity budget, and it worked and that is the reason Sweden is not part of the crisis today. 

The reason Sweden is not part of the crisis is because they're not part of the Eurozone.

As much as I hate the Euro, the Euro itself has very little to do with wether a country's economy had a crisis or not.      

You're wrong. If we had our currency then we could have gone through this crisis much less painfully by devaluing it, just like Poland does.
Also we could've used inflation to lighten the private debt, which crushes our middle class families, and spur growth.

Unfortunately we are wearing a straitjacket and the only thing that troika does is ask from us to tighten it even more.
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« Reply #1852 on: April 19, 2012, 04:39:37 PM »

This isn't looking good at all.

*Sigh* I like Sarkozy.

He will be missed. Sad

No. I refuse to give up. France can't go the way of Greece and Spain with Hollande. People need to wake up in the polling booths and realize this is no time to be throwing the UMP out for something as risky as the Socialists.

I've got news for you: it was the conservatives who threw our economy off a cliff between 2004-09.

Yes it was the Conservative party, but because they spent like drunk Socialists. You can hardly accuse austerity politics for the crisis in Greece. It was spending (and people not paying their taxes). Who did the spending is hardly relevant. This whole talking-point from the left that austerity politics are not the way to go, is bull.

Sweden had an economic crisis in the early 90's because both Socialist and Right-wing goverments spent and lend way too much money. Then in 96 the new Social Democratic PM cut the budget so much his base revolted and went voting for the commies, and kept a really tight austerity budget, and it worked and that is the reason Sweden is not part of the crisis today.   

(Not that Sarkozy would pursue a responsible Economic policy, and Hollande's talk of overturning European consensus is quite obviously just pondering to the left-wing base, so it won't really matter how this election goes.)

The problem is HOW the money is spent...productive investment can make a big deficit easily abbordable.
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« Reply #1853 on: April 19, 2012, 04:43:11 PM »

You people are being boring.
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« Reply #1854 on: April 19, 2012, 04:57:38 PM »

The quality of this thread has rapidly decreased, I see.
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« Reply #1855 on: April 19, 2012, 05:02:31 PM »

Can this argument please be wiped off the face of the forum?

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« Reply #1856 on: April 19, 2012, 05:58:48 PM »

Then in 96 the new Social Democratic PM cut the budget so much his base revolted and went voting for the commies, and kept a really tight austerity budget, and it worked and that is the reason Sweden is not part of the crisis today. 

The reason Sweden is not part of the crisis is because they're not part of the Eurozone.

As much as I hate the Euro, the Euro itself has very little to do with wether a country's economy had a crisis or not.      

You're wrong. If we had our currency then we could have gone through this crisis much less painfully by devaluing it, just like Poland does.

If you bothered to read my entire post you'd see that's exactly what I said.
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« Reply #1857 on: April 19, 2012, 06:09:59 PM »

Then in 96 the new Social Democratic PM cut the budget so much his base revolted and went voting for the commies, and kept a really tight austerity budget, and it worked and that is the reason Sweden is not part of the crisis today. 

The reason Sweden is not part of the crisis is because they're not part of the Eurozone.

As much as I hate the Euro, the Euro itself has very little to do with wether a country's economy had a crisis or not.      

You're wrong. If we had our currency then we could have gone through this crisis much less painfully by devaluing it, just like Poland does.

If you bothered to read my entire post you'd see that's exactly what I said.

But the fact is that Euro caused the problem, not just aggravated it. There are countries with bigger debt than Greece that have no problem to borrow in low rates just because they still have their own currency and their own independent monetary policy.

I don't disagree that a big dose of fiscal austerity is needed in our case only (in Spain and Italy it's a disastrous recipe) but without having the flexibility of a national currency it might prove to be a costly and failed experiment.
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« Reply #1858 on: April 19, 2012, 07:30:50 PM »

This discussion ends here. If you want to discuss such matters (and they aren't exactly unimportant, granted) please do so elsewhere. Further posts will be deleted, etc.
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« Reply #1859 on: April 19, 2012, 08:14:03 PM »

I might as well lock this thread until Sunday. The last two days are stupid days, and this thread is a sh**tfes and has turned from bad to horrible.
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« Reply #1860 on: April 20, 2012, 06:51:34 AM »

Well, today we should get back to business with the publication of Fab's final tracker. Wink
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« Reply #1861 on: April 20, 2012, 12:08:16 PM »

Yeah, I wish the allegations against DSK hadn't surfaced until he was the nominee, so he could epicly self destruct and not even make the second ballot.
Mélenchon President? I'll take it! Grin
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« Reply #1862 on: April 20, 2012, 05:03:35 PM »

BREAKING NEWS !
2012 Big Bad Tracker #51 - 20 April 2012   

The last one before the first round !!!   


      

Hollande 27,79
Sarkozy 26,98
Le Pen 15,69
Bayrou 10,32
Mélenchon 13,79
Joly 2,38   
Dupont-Aignan 1,42   
Arthaud 0,53
Poutou 1,05
Cheminade 0,06

Hollande 55,16
Sarkozy 44,84

Hollande just ahead of Sarkozy !
Dupont-Aignan surge and Poutoumentum !
Hollande over 55 in the second round !

I'll post this Saturday on my blog an anlysis of spreads between pollsters, of current trends  and, hence, what I foresee besides this tracker.

Antonio, you are free to post your graphs here Wink
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« Reply #1863 on: April 20, 2012, 05:18:26 PM »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/18/francois-hollande-wont-change-europe

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« Reply #1864 on: April 20, 2012, 05:30:04 PM »

BREAKING NEWS !
2012 Big Bad Tracker #51 - 20 April 2012   

The last one before the first round !!!   


      

Hollande 27,79
Sarkozy 26,98
Le Pen 15,69
Bayrou 10,32
Mélenchon 13,79
Joly 2,38   
Dupont-Aignan 1,42   
Arthaud 0,53
Poutou 1,05
Cheminade 0,06

Hollande 55,16
Sarkozy 44,84

Hollande just ahead of Sarkozy !
Dupont-Aignan surge and Poutoumentum !
Hollande over 55 in the second round !

I'll post this Saturday on my blog an anlysis of spreads between pollsters, of current trends  and, hence, what I foresee besides this tracker.

Antonio, you are free to post your graphs here Wink

Thank you ! Smiley Graphs are coming soon.
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« Reply #1865 on: April 20, 2012, 05:44:05 PM »

Technical note: since you updated the results for 2nd round as well, what will we do with the regular tracker of April 23 ? Will you give polls published from monday to today a lower weighting than those published right after the 1st round ? Or will you just update the 2nd round tracker while keeping the 100% weighting for these polls ?
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« Reply #1866 on: April 20, 2012, 06:00:54 PM »

I'll only take into account the polls of this last week. So, it will be another update of the second round tracker (but I'm sure we'll have polls for the second round on Sunday evening and on Monday morning - "le premier sondage du second tour !").
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« Reply #1867 on: April 20, 2012, 06:18:55 PM »

I'll only take into account the polls of this last week. So, it will be another update of the second round tracker (but I'm sure we'll have polls for the second round on Sunday evening and on Monday morning - "le premier sondage du second tour !").

So it won't be a real update, just a technical correction. If it's fine for you, I will include only the april 23 version in my graph, as I don't see the need for having two numbers for the same set of polls.
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« Reply #1868 on: April 20, 2012, 08:30:50 PM »

Here we go !



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« Reply #1869 on: April 21, 2012, 07:25:44 AM »


Isn't the Guardian supposed to be left-wing??
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« Reply #1870 on: April 21, 2012, 07:50:23 AM »


Yeah, it's an opinion piece though.
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« Reply #1871 on: April 21, 2012, 07:51:14 AM »

So... I'm off to vote. Still hesitating a bit.
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« Reply #1872 on: April 21, 2012, 07:52:20 AM »

It's not as if it really matters, does it?
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« Reply #1873 on: April 21, 2012, 08:21:46 AM »

So... I'm off to vote. Still hesitating a bit.

Sarko président ! Grin

Why not Dupont-Aignan ? It would be cool to see him having a big consituency in Canada and among French people abroad Tongue
After much analysis, we could infer some big Gaullist revival overseas ! Wink
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« Reply #1874 on: April 21, 2012, 08:24:22 AM »


How lucky man you are !
This tracker was designed for you... Just before the end he prevails...

Now, imagine this with Aubry Wink
Maybe Mélenchon wouldn't have surged so much, but Bayrou would have been higher.
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