Paying The Greek Piper

The Greek's sent the US markets into a tailspin today! If you've been reading this blog, you first heard about Greece's problems on 12/12/2008.
http://randomroving.blogspot.com/2008/12/opa.html

From Larry Edelson at Weiss Research:
"For decades now, reasonable people have warned that the European Union’s insane government spending and skyrocketing debt could not go on forever. The day would inevitably come when Europe would have to pay the piper. In Greece, that day is today! The nation is in absolute chaos: Hundreds of thousands of government workers are staging their third general strike of the year to protest the huge spending cuts the government must make to avoid defaulting on its debt. The entire country is paralyzed. Air traffic controllers, train and ferry operators, teachers and even shopkeepers have walked off of their jobs. Hospitals are working with emergency medical staff only. And despite the more than 1,500 police that have been deployed to prevent violence in Athens, there’s blood in the streets:
-A firebomb at an Athens bank killed at least three people yesterday.
-Young thugs are hurling gasoline bombs at stores, businesses and government buildings, setting fires throughout Athens.
-As many as 60,000 union demonstrators have attempted to storm the parliament building, hurling rocks at riot police, who pelted them with tear gas, stun grenades and baton charges.
-In Thessaloniki, 20,000 protesters marched through the city center, smashing the windows of stores and restaurants."

"THIS is what we’ve been warning you about. THIS is what a sovereign debt crisis looks like. THIS is the kind of chaos — and worse — that euro-zone leaders are now terrified will spread across the continent."

SOURCE: Weiss Research Inc.

The Emerging Shift

More from the interview with Long Wave master, David Knox Barker:


"Human psychology drives the cycles and there are trends in psychology. For instance, if you look at the 1970s to early ‘80s and the force that brought Ronald Reagan into office, it was a seasonal change in the long wave. It was a shift from the Roosevelt era of the 1930s of “The government should go out and save me from the economic forces” to “Let the free market take care of itself.” Then with Obama we saw a shift back to the idea that the government needs to step in and control the markets. A lot of the psychology you see is manifested in political trends. In the 1930s we gave the New Deal a chance. I talked in about that in the 1995 edition of my book, that fact that we’d probably see a global version of the New Deal proposed during the present crisis. And sure enough that’s exactly what was proposed [during the credit crisis of 2008]. The fact that people are even talking about a global New Deal is a sign that the psychology has radically changed. The socialists are excited because they think we’re headed in that direction, but I think they’re in for a major disappointment. I think we’re heading for a shift [in psychology] to a degree larger than the previous shift in political psychology. I sincerely believe the Tea Party movement is an early manifestation of this emerging shift, which I believe will be toward the Great Republic."

Read the entire interview:
http://financialsense.com/editorials/droke/2010/0415.html