Chamem-me bruxo!!!

A 2 de Janeiro escrevi Somos todos alemães:
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"Desejando o melhor para os nossos amigos eslovacos, espero que os seus políticos e empresários já tenham descoberto o que me demorou cinco anos a perceber.
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Um país que adere ao euro torna-se ... numa nova Alemanha.
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Um país que acorda com uma moeda forte a circular dentro de si, deixa de ser um país que pode assentar a defesa da sua economia na desvalorização 'política' dessa moeda."
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Pois bem:
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"Moody's Investors Service have last Friday cut their outlook on Slovakia’s government bonds rating "
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"Moody's justify their decision on the grounds that future investment in Slovakia is at risk due to a combination of factors: the recession in the euro-region, the country’s dependence on the car industry and its falling competitiveness compared with other eastern European nations, many of whose currencies have fallen sharply during the crisis. In fact the Slovak Finance Ministry forecast only last Friday that foreign direct investment into Slovakia will be much lower this year than originally expected - with the Minister stating he expected a decline in FDI to 0.6 percent of gross domestic product in 2009, compared with a 2.7 percent forecast before the economic and financial crisis hit the country. The worrying thing for me about all this, is not the immediate short term pressure which Slovakia will undoubtedly be under due to the regional crisis, but rather the loss of competitiveness issue, becuase it is ringing bells in my head about what previously happened in the case of Portugal (see my lengthy post on this here).
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The danger is that eurozone membership gets to be seen as a target you strive to achieve, and then relax into once it has been attained. The Southern Europe experience generally is not encouraging in this regard, and as they are finding out now, the hardest work begins after adopting the euro, since there is no currency left to devalue should loss of competitiveness prove severe."
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Não, não sou bruxo, está tudo escrito nas estrelas.
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E os ignorantes e desonestos que não nos falam olhos nos olhos sopbre o que está em causa ...

Trechos de Edward Hugh