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  • These vids were quite amusing a couple of months ago. That's not the case anymore! As a Greek I thank you all for your concern and and solidarity! Europe shall come out of this stronger and wiser!!

  • Someone name me some countries who aren't f***ed (and don't say China because all 2 billion of them have scars on their backs from whips held by their communist leaders).

  • @jmacgillivray33 Switzerland

  • Keep using the printing press European central bank, keep doing it. I just can't wait till the total collapse of any and every single progressive left wing socialist policy falling into the greatest and cruelest joke in human history.

  • IMF is your new daddy!

    Google Christine LaGarde and Obama connection. DSK gets removed from the head of the IMF on false rape charges. The accuser recants and in comes Christine, but not until Obama OKs the new appointee.

    Who is she? She use to work for the law firm the represents Obama. The IMF is lending money to bankrupt countries in order to make them beholden to the lender...the IMF! Exactly like China did to the U.S. of A! 

  • 11 Germans have watched this video.

  • ahahaha

  • British humor is the only reason the British Pound has retained it's value.

  • @mrsha007 except Clarke and Dawe are from New Zealand and Australia, respectively.

  • @FB2K6 Realized that after. Had never heard of these two before this clip.

  • Lmao hilarious

  • laff it up stupid americans When we form one country..no borders..one money..one language then who will laff?

  • the bit about china had me in stitches...

  • Don´t deveive any of you who read me, any of you.! this crisis is not only an economic crisis. It is the whole european social infrastructure that is falling.

    Only a few big miscellaneous lobbies will succeed, the rest will just survive. In fact this isn´t a crisis but a change of tendencies in all aspects that will transform Europe in a wild, dictatorial, well organized chaos !! unemployement will never recover ! never!!

    In Europe many tragedies will be seen as never before !! Wait and see !

  • The euro ! the ruin for the majority of european citizens, the disaster for the social welfare state and the catastrophe for those citizens who are decent and honest.

    The euro! the german trap that hitlerian Merkel laid and where the socialist european goverments felt into.

    I ashame myself for having been born european cause Europe is a continent where all citizens could live as kings and queens and now, due to socialist tendencies we all crawl among miseries and soon in the most abject poverty.

  • Who's on first?

  • All this crisis has only 1 cause. The ''ability'' of banks to create out of thin air as much money as we can borrow and loan money that they don't actually have.In other words, a bank can lend someone a car when,at the same time, there is only 1 (not even 4 !!!) tire in the bank's vault.I really wonder who was the ''genius'' that invented this system ...

  • @OmicronLeonis Did it occur to you that is why our Federal Government is broke right now? They have an unlimited charge card with the Federal Reserve and they Feds just keep printing money to make the DEBT cheaper to service. That in turn devalues your money and you end up with a hidden tax called inflation as a result.

  • @MeteorMega thank you Woodrow Wilson.

  • @MeteorMega This is true relentless spending because all is lost anyway but after all there will be a new balance when this 4 world reich will tumble!

  • @TheNewAlias I'm an Asian-American, dumbass. Your punctuation is also horrible you retarded hypocrite.

  • Its`s funny, europeans still build TGVs, ICEs , 6-lane highways , travel the world , didnt correct a penny their currency just as if nothing happens Dutch friend, the netherlands is a tiny, periferic economy in Europe and the world , people also prefer to have a bicycle than a car ( no pun intended ), like the UK your country has chosen `services` to Industry ( tribute to Fokker !). Problem is when you have scale industrial places, and China makes the same with 10 times lower costs.

  • It said: "you can skip this ad in..." and the timer was as long as the commercial. >:(

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  • Lol at all these comments. China owns United States and Europe? I find it insulting that they are bigger than both of us put together. The end as we know it when the short chinky eyed fellas take over the world and throw us all out of power.

  • @AwesomeAaron87 shut up low IQ cracker boy

  • Or, the countries that owe eachother can forgive eachother's debt. That is really the ONLY way out of this circle of debt. Fractional Reserve Banking reversed.

  • this is the best hahahhaha

  • Star Trek

  • The problem of Europe is Spain and his huge unemployment rate caused by a reckless immigration policy, allowing entry to 5 million immigrants, 5 million!! It's like supporting a whole new country!! and coincidentally also has 5 million unemployed, what a coincidence, right? This costs Spain 600 € million every days!! It's as if Europe had unemployed an entire country,8 out of 10 unemployed Europeans are Spanish, if Europe does not force you to change Spain will sink and dragged across Europe

  • He didn't ask the question: Where did all that money go to ?

    Big Government = Big Pockets, absurd pay raises for government workers while bleeding the private sector to death thanx to left wing ideologies.

    And now, we have to borrow from cummunist China (a country that pays it's employees a bowl of rice a day) just so we can keep these disproportionally high public worker salaries demanded by the local left wing parties.

    Left wing ideologies should be considered social disorders.

  • I live in England, I'll give you a quick rundown of the situation here.

    We're fucked.

  • Lmao, the European Union is economically unstable and in major debt right now.

    Just thought I should return the favor Europe, greetings from America!

  • this will either cause WW3 or bring us all together as Earth is some Worldly Totalitarianism Gov... im moving to mars!

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  • lol

  • The tragic, completely predictable outcome of "enlightened," fascistic kleptocratic, European socialistic Welfare-Statism.

  • Call us in debt now Europe, HAHA, karma's a Bitch!

  • @Canuckism101 Listen and listen well Greece economy is kaput, Italy economy is kaput and Euro currency is also kaput. lol Invest in gold and silver.

  • Meanwhile in Australia...

  • Fantastic video, keep up the good work.

  • The Great Euro is kaput ! lol

    USA is still number 1# Numero uno.

  • @TheIxtlan US is number one, the biggest debt in the world.

  • @TheIxtlan USA! USA! USA! What's that, China called? They want their money back? Oh fuuuu....

  • Brilliant! Well put!

  • Italy owe around 2.7Trillion euros atm. Unless they had copyrights to Pizza, theres no way in hell theyre paying that off.

  • I hope we can all still be laughing 1,2 or 5 years from now! :)

  • @CamsLiveVideo Somehow I can't think how that will happen if the federal government is not reduced drastically and we stop spending and pay down the DEBT.

  • @MeteorMega Sad but true

  • @CamsLiveVideo and BOOM BABY - Top comment muahahahah

  • This is great

  • when we see the politicians at euro parliement, they seam to be smiling all the time... and where did they find the money to fight in Libia then?

  • Thumbs up if you were directed here by Sunny Roseman!

  • The answers trade - it always has been - that's the way out.

    With their (farm) protectionist trade policies, EU and USA have 'written off' the continent of Africa (but China hasn't) . Now that Europe and US are broke, and have no one - when the despritely need it - to trade them out (not bail them); they should have bought African sugar and cotton (instead of paying their farmers billions to make it themselves), then Africa would have bought EU trucks stuff.

    EU /US - your punishment.

  • @fractalnomics: Haha. Not quite written off Africa... the Massmart acquisition by Walmart is certainly going to be watched closely by intl corporations. Oh wait, essentially a Chinese company since the money heads straight to China to purchase more products. Haha.

  • @fractalnomics That is just silly, it is a very simply view of what is going on, people should ask the question, who has the money? If you follow the money you will find it is banks, they create money from nothing and the world pays for it. What a scam.

  • @RussMaxable: money is created by the central bank (or by the FED in the US) which lends it to the commercial banks. The central bank is owned by the state (well, officially). This could be a working idea, unfortunately it is corrupted (like almost everything else in this world).

  • @RussMaxable Most of the debt that exists does so without any money at all existing to pay it back.

  • @fractalnomics Nope the way out is to send the criminal banksters to jail, for the Nations to grab some balls like the Icelanders and say fu and form their own banking system that is based on the usary mechanism.

  • @fractalnomics you're talking about comparative advantage? You do know Europe, excluding the UK still has some strong manufacturing base. they can still trade their way out. even with food crops they can still trade their way out but it takes time! the problem is how do you get out of debt without putting a burden on your economy or should i say on the taxpayers

  • @chasingimagination1 You stop growing government, stop over regulation and stop interfering in people's private lives. Then you improve education and lower your DEBT.

  • @MeteorMega 'stop over regulation' of what specifically? i think the government should interfere in bankers lives. after all they brought us all down. 'stop government growing?' in terms of what? cutting education? cutting health spending? or military funding? give specifics and not slogans for the party you support

  • the US has the largest military in the world, the most technologically sophisticated one at that. It has the lowest personal income tax rate, and it has no Goods sales tax (GST). It had 2 wars in less then a decade, and two tax cuts in less then a decade. ..the bankers told the govts, trust us, we will give you prosperity, then they say, bail us out, then they say, trust us again, with no string attached for the bail out, now govts need bailouts.. and they say, too bad. sad..

  • @teddythebenny agreed

  • @chasingimagination1 and btw, this has always happened.

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  • @chasingimagination1 Yes stop all the interference by the Federal Government - start letting the states have their rights back. the federal government is not chartered to provide you with health care and the expense of workers, it's not chartered to provide or interfere in education. Their only function is to provide a Judicial and Military to protect us.

    Why do you people believe that we should keep feeding the monster?

  • @MeteorMega I take it you're a Ron Paul supporter. And you agree with him to take the constitution LITERALLY. Just my guess anyway, correct me if i'm wrong. 'Judicial and Military' only? no public works?

    Well if most of you want that, i have no qualms with it. The US is 'suppose' to be a democracy after all. But if it were to happen, I predict a 3rd World nation in the making.

  • @chasingimagination1 Yes, I am very much a Dr. Paul supporter. Public works? Isn't that a state right? I mean federal government can take care of the interstate highway system, but what else should they take care of? We are already a 3rd world nation in the making. We have a DEBT that we cannot repay and our dollar will be worth about 50% when we default or print more money to pay the interest on it. Our federal government needs to stop spending.

  • @chasingimagination1 The US is supposed to be a Republic and we are loosing that. Please read Dr. Paul's speech in 2000 before the House. It's called "A Republic If You Can Keep It". It's about what we are loosing in this once great country.

  • @fractalnomics Exactly, having a market-based economy and bailing out farmers and even countries doesn't work in the long run

  • @fractalnomics

    Anything the U.S.A. has done is because of our own 'progressive' policies.

    How is Africa as a continent more stable than the U.S.A.? It is not. Screw the Euro it should not be tied to the U.S.A.

    I'm sure the region of the U.S.A. still grows Sugar. Cotton, Wheat and Corn.... along with Beef, Pork and Fowl.

  • A mite sad when comedians tell more truth than the journos! Keep it coming Clarke and Dawe!

  • Jawwad Farids has posted this video to his facebook :\

  • @Tiwaking And we care becaaaaaase...?

  • @OakAged72 People taking other peoples videos (he has scrubbed out the credits as well) is wrong.

  • @Tiwaking Agreed. Wish that's what you'd said. It sounded like you liked the video and posted a link to it on your facebook page, and were telling us about it.

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  • The problem is that it is not countries that have lent them the money, but their banks.

  • @kyonsuzumiyakim japan's debt is mostly owned by the citizens. It's a savings economy. The citizens have loaned govt the money and not foreign countries

  • SELL EVERYTHING IMMEDIATELY

  • So put another way... EU nations owe each other a load of money. Zero sum, so where's the problem for the EU as a whole?

  • @Mechness

    Money isn't something you just move around, you can lose investments. But a lot of Euro debt can be cancellet, google "The great EU debt write off". The question is, who benefits from this lending?

    Correct.

  • @turcca Money absolutely is something you just move around. If someone makes a bad investment, someone else still gets the money.

  • @Mechness Unfortunately, it is not ZERO sum. Sad European citizen.

  • @MarshallBF Sure it is. If A owes B money and both A and B are collectively Known as entity AB, this debt is internal to AB. No problem really.

  • @Mechness Did you hear them saying "Germany owes..."? no, because many of these debts are one way, "mostly to Britain, France and Germany". Because countries like Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Spain... SPENT their "loans". So the sum is not zero. Now this is just academical debate since the real problem is "Modern money mechanics" (fractional reserve banking, interest rates, and ratings...) AND one more important thing: the actual debts are not country vs country, but usually country vs bank

  • @MarshallBF Did you watch the video? It specifically covers Italy and Spain owing to each other... No country has zero national debt and in fact debt has been far, far higher in the past. The real issue is a sudden aversion to borrowing which has destroyed market confidence and stalled the world economy.

    WRT Eurozone debt... if one Eurozone country owes euros to another, this has zero net effect on total Eurozone liabilites.

    They "spent their loans", but the money still exists somewhere.

  • @Mechness You're wrong. The money has been wasted on useless bureacrats and corrupted government spending on prestige projects, unnecessary infrastructure and welfare payments that were spent on booze and cigarettes. The money is gone or in the hands of the few people who still work. I'm guessing you're proposing communism and taxing everybody 100%?

  • @NietzscheanMan Haha, you're funny!

    Money doesn't disappear when it's spent. Someone else just gets it and it keeps their business going. No big deal.

  • Brilliant!.....funny but sadly true.

  • they are getting the money from the US Federal Reserve

  • Fantastic! Very funny! And they've hit the nail on the head too!

  • IMO Europe cannot fail at any cost, no money can buy the peace we have today, European leaders should grow some real backbone and defend the union whatever the cost. The 2 world wars, the worst conflicts in the history of humanity started in Europe. Europeans are capable of killing each other in an immense scale, no money can buy peace and save countless millions of lives.

  • @ntt688 Are you saying Europe *can* not fail or it *must* not fail?

    What do they need to defend it against?

    Why do you single out the Europeans' ability to kill each other? Are you saying they're more murderous than any other people?

    Why do you say that money can't buy peace?

    Why do you say that money can't save lives?

    Why do you slpice multiple sentences together with a comma?

    Enquiring minds want to know!

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  • @ntt688 Thanks so much for your answers to none of my questions. But never mind! I no longer suspect you're able to provide a cohesive argument in support of any of your random statements or implications.

  • @OakAged72 why are you so interested in my opinion? There are ~165 comments and you decide to focus on mine, ridiculous. My statements were not random, but, as I am Portuguese, maybe my english is not that good, hence some of the questions you make may be due to that.

    Maybe my ponctuation is wrong, jeez! I just felt like writing something and I wrote that. I know I did not answer your questions, but you seem intelligent as all enquiring minds usually are, so you figure it out yourself.

  • @ntt688 Right, most people read 165 comments before replying to any they've read. That's ridiculous. I ready a few, found yours strange and objectionable, asked what you meant. Also ridiculous is the idea that intelligence allows one to figure out what someone means when they post non sequiters - such as accusing people in a particular geographic region of being more murderous than others in response to a financial article. But again, never mind. I no longer care what you were thinking.

  • @OakAged72 You certainly are fast at drawing the wrong conclusions from my comment. And also thanks for not caring anymore for what I was thinking, as it was really not important at all. Just a random comment from a random person in the midst of millions that are posted every second on the inter-tubes......

  • SELL EVERYTHING IMMEDIATLY! QUICKLY!! Best financial advise I have heard in a while, I think I will follow his advice too!

  • So true. Sad but true.

  • Nice and funny. But it tries to skip over the facts. The bailouts can be explained. 

  • @SandipDev Yes it can be easily explained: They don't bailout the countries, actually they are bailing out the banksters!

  • @angelmtza well I dont consider rhetoric as explanation.

  • @SandipDev Any ideas?

  • @angelmtza I wrote a small 25 page paper on bank recapitalization in US and EU. Might be a good start... wanna read? ;-)

  • @SandipDev Why not, I'm always open to new ideas as long as they are good. Bring them on please!

  • @angelmtza here is the link goo[dot]gl[slash]5uVnJ It talks about the recapitalization process (aka bailout) of global banks from 2008 to 2011. I covered US mostly and talked a little about EU.

  • @angelmtza And I should warn you. The paper is academic in nature. No rhetoric whatsoever.

  • what he says at 0:16 ?

    Since the war, been a bit ???

  • @ThaWestcoastDon "... been a bit quiet."

  • The Chinese should learn to do one thing: to execute 80 million communist party members:-)

  • Well done!

    Just think of the (privately owned) US-FED they printed over 2 Trillion Dollars "lending" them also to european Central Banks. Banks are "bailing out" the Euro (who was originally forbidden to bail out). Most of the "Bail-Out"-Money returns to the Banks to pay back interest/credit but is NOPT used for the people/economy of these countries!

    Now think a little WHO is more and more owning european countries...

  • love it

  • Tooo Funny!

  • @ClarkeAndDawe: This gag is so great that I've subtitled it to Spanish, as you can see in my profile. If there is any problem with it, please let me know.

  • Spain owes Italy $41b, and Italy owes Spain $27b - but neither can pay the other back because their both broke..

    If only there was a way.. *rubs chin*

  • sure australian got a nice sense of humor. I'm enjoying it even though i moved here for only like 1 year.

  • I really like this kind of humor. Wish they did it more here in the states.

  • Sell everything immediately...quickly

    Hahahahahahaha

  • The begininning of the end was the euro.

  • finally i understand!

  • WTF? HAHA.

  • The media will have you believe that the financial struggle is between countries while in actual fact it's between privately owned transnational corporate entities and people in general, 'follow the money' from the time you spend it on fuel or groceries and see where that money goes and you see who the real winners are in the system.

  • @pearlsfortheswines

    Banks are the winners. Even if they make a loss one year the employees still get their bonuses

  • @MyStIcTrE3 Actually no. A huge component of a trader's salary is variable and based on what he makes at the market. So if you fail to perform repeatedly, not only is ur salary lower, you will be very soon shown the door. I know quite a few ppl working at HKEX, LSE, NYSE, BSE

  • Because it's OWNED BY CHINA..... correct!

  • I ask a Greek "What's the capital of Greece?" He said Athens of course. I said "No, it's minus 7 Billion Euro". They don't seem to get the point that to get money out of something, you \need to have put in money in the first place.

  • There's no point and arguing over this haha

    The monetary system simply cannot work in these times all ''economies'' are doomed

    Just have a laugh at these awesome vids

  • and after this, somebody actually dares talk back to us when we finns are going "err.. no?"

  • I needed a good laugh after class today and this did the job. A sad state we are in, but ya gotta be able to laugh at it. What else can you do?

  • no more money in the western world... time to earn our money in the east.

  • Yeah but who do they owe it all TO?

  • @BINKIE2000 They owe it to each other's central banks, business, funds etc. Governments are not the only buyers of other govt bonds.

  • @BINKIE2000 In fact, even citizens of Spain can hold govt bonds of Spain.

  • Best Australian export since death and sand.

  • 'Because it's owned by China!' LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!

  • a self supporting government is one who knows how the economy of their part of the world works, and uses this political business sense to have a self supporting government by minimising interactions with other countries to gain independence, things like fashion, or even pins and buttons would be an example, a government who does not rely on taxes, and has rental caps is going to have less desperate people breaking the rules to feed and clothe their families, tax alcohol

  • a self supporting government is one who knows how the economy of their part of the world works, and uses this political business sense to have a self supporting government by minimising interactions with other countries to gain independence, things like fashion, or even pins and buttons would be an example, a government who does not rely on taxes, and has rental caps is going to have less desperate people breaking the rules to feed and clothe their families, tax alcohol

  • Ron Paul 2012!!! If someone is going to play god with our economy, I'd rather it be him that Bernanke!!

  • @AroundSun But being an extreme libertarian, Ron Paul would actually be playing "no god" with the money, wouldn't he?

  • @Brettah31 That is correct. Because there wouldn't be that much money!!!!

    "The more money the government has, the less the people have."

    True story

  • @AroundSun Unless of course they're spending it on welfare.

  • @Brettah31 Then it is misallocated and spent inefficiently. Sooner or later you will run out of someone elses money. Its sad that the world debt outstrips world production. Liberals advocate a bailout, from Mars.....So we can sustain this unsustainable system.

  • @AroundSun Australia has one of the highest levels of state welfare, aimed at poverty alleviation, yet we have the lowest foreign debt out of the developed world. If you can support people well enough so that they can be retrained and re-educated, then they can re-join the work force as productive individuals. If you don't regulate how the welfare dollars are spent THEN its a waste.

    As far as bailouts are concerned, if your induestries actually had regulations, they wouldn't need bailing out.

  • @Brettah31 "if your induestries actually had regulations, they wouldn't need bailing out."...Liberals are so braindead I don't even know where to begin anymore......

  • @AroundSun By "Liberals" do you mean the left side of politics? Cuz I'm on the conservative side of politics in my country. The difference is that we acknowlede that sometimes a bit of regulation is required.

    Our economy survived the financial crisis and yours didn't. Nuff said.

  • @AroundSun Actually, I'm on the conservative side of politics in my country. I do believe in having a small public sector, but there is nothing stupid about regulation, otherwise, what's the point in even having a government?

    Heres a novel idea: How about you put a ban on banks giving loans to people who can't possibly pay them back? That might be some good regulation.

    My country survived the global financial crisis that your country caused. Nuff said.

  • @Brettah31 Thats not a regulation thats an idea that is hard to implement. Whats even funnier is that it wasnt a lack of regulation, it was TOO MANY regulations. With a central bank, the system doesnt work if money isnt worth anything. The REGULATION was to print money so these investment firms could go out and leverage it up. It was to force these banks to give unqualified applicants cheap loans through easy money in the name of social justice.  Your country survived? What country sir??

  • @AroundSun lol, that's an interesting view of the situation. Haven't heard that one before.

    You could look at my profile to ascertain what country I'm from (as I did with you), but Americans aren't known for being thorough in their research, I guess. I'm from the country that produced the video we're both commenting on.

  • @Brettah31 Havent heard that one before? Well stop living under a rock you fucking idiot. You show your blatant misunderstanding of economics and finance with your idiotic statements. Just stop talking. Youre central bank didn't print trillions of dollars out of thin air, thats why you didn't have a problem.

  • @Brettah31 "Americans aren't known for being thorough in their research, I guess. I'm from the country that produced the video we're both commenting on." Well thats just fucking hillarious then! Because YOU don't understand the GOD DAMN VIDEO LOL!! The whole freaking point of it is that deficit spending and quantitative easing is going to destroy the world! God you are braindead. With the highest GDP in the world I would say Americans ARE in fact known for their research LOL. NASA??

  • @AroundSun Not a fan of NASA? Are you seriously suggesting that NASA is a bad idea?

    America&