Archive for 20 Junho, 2011
«A Hamiltonian Solution For Europe»
«What would that look like?
It would start with the recognition that Greece is insolvent. It can’t pay the money it owes. One or two or maybe three other countries also may be insolvent. And the existence of solvency problems in some states is creating liquidity problems for other larger states. So there’s some insolvency, and even though the insolvency is concentrated in a relatively small number of small states it’s a problem for a much broader set of European people. At the same time, if you look at the total amount of sovereign debt in Europe and compare it to the Eurozone’s total fiscal capacity, the debt is very manageable. The Eurozone as a whole is a very solvent, creditworthy entity. So in principle you could consolidate all that outstanding European debt into a single Eurozone-wide debt financed by a modest European Solidarity VAT Surcharge. Then you’d have to severely curtail (if not eliminate) the EU member states’ ability to engage in deficit spending, limiting them to some kind of authority to borrow from a central European entity. The EU itself would become a debt-issuing, taxing entity like a real country.»
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Sobre a falhada eleição de Fernando Nobre para Presidente da Assembleia da República
Apenas três breves notas:
- Haverá alguma razão que justifique que a votação não seja efectuada por via electrónica?
- Teria sido perfeitamente escusado o (duplo!) embaraço a que o PSD se auto-submeteu…
- Fernando Nobre não revelou dignidade em retirar-se face à necessidade de uma terceira votação; perante a evidência de previsibilidade do desfecho, teria revelado dignidade se tivesse decidido abdicar antes da primeira votação, assim poupando o partido pelo qual foi eleito a esta situação constrangedora, e evitando o provocar desta primeira cisão na coligação que suporta o Governo que amanharã tomará posse.
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