Euro zone on brink of recession

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#euroboom has turned to #eurogloom. GDP data scheduled for release later this month are likely to confirm that in the final three months of 2018 Italy’s economy contracted for a second consecutive quarter, satisfying one of the technical definitions of a recession. Germany appears to have escaped recession, but only just. The euro area, formed in January 1999, may pass its anniversary on the brink of another downturn.

The euro has been an economic fiasco. GDP growth in the euro area has lagged behind that in other advanced economies, and in the European Union as a whole, throughout its life—before the financial crisis, during the global recession and its euro-area encore, and even during the recent #euroboom. Perhaps the area would have done as badly without the single currency. But attempts to estimate euro-zone performance relative to a counterfactual world sans euro suggest not. The past decade has been especially brutal. A list of the world’s worst performers in terms of real GDP per person since 2008 contains places suffering geopolitical meltdowns—plus the euro-area periphery. Greece has been outgrown by Sudan and Ukraine. Cyprus and Italy have been beaten by Brazil and Iran; France and the Netherlands by Britain.
 
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If you know 'anything' about economics & have even the faintest clue about how an economy works . . . Then you will understand that the UK leaving the EU means it's all over. Whatever the ****** spouted by your MSM of choice is, it is game over for the EU.

You all think that you have the answers & you all think that you can solve the problems yet the people have spoken & the people say "OUT".

If you have a problem with this, then you have a problem with the people.
 
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If you know 'anything' about economics & have even the faintest clue about how an economy works . . . Then you will understand that the UK leaving the EU means it's all over. Whatever the ****** spouted by your MSM of choice is, it is game over for the EU.

You all think that you have the answers & you all think that you can solve the problems yet the people have spoken & the people say "OUT".

If you have a problem with this, then you have a problem with the people.

What's all over? Regale us with your opinion.
 
Notch where's that from?

Economist Free Exchange. (y)

Oops forgot to include link
https://www.economist.com/finance-a...utm_campaign=Daily_Dispatch&utm_term=20190122

Elsewhere:
“The region remains stuck in a soft-patch,” said Chris Williamson, an economist at IHS Markit. “The survey responses highlighted intensifying headwinds of Brexit and trade-war worries, a struggling autos sector and rising uncertainty regarding the economic and political outlook.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...owth-is-here-to-stay-as-italy-recession-looms

A more measured view:

While some recent indicator readings are worrying, we do not believe the data at present suggest a Eurozone recession is either imminent or inevitable
https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/is-the-eurozone-economy-close-to-recession-201901221716

I do believe that a no deal risk is a worry for Germany, Holland, France and is generating negotiating leverage. Im not the sure such worry would encourage the EU to allow a deal with no backstop.....probably not.
 
Oops forgot to include link
https://www.economist.com/finance-a...utm_campaign=Daily_Dispatch&utm_term=20190122

Elsewhere:
“The region remains stuck in a soft-patch,” said Chris Williamson, an economist at IHS Markit. “The survey responses highlighted intensifying headwinds of Brexit and trade-war worries, a struggling autos sector and rising uncertainty regarding the economic and political outlook.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...owth-is-here-to-stay-as-italy-recession-looms

A more measured view:

While some recent indicator readings are worrying, we do not believe the data at present suggest a Eurozone recession is either imminent or inevitable
https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/is-the-eurozone-economy-close-to-recession-201901221716

I do believe that a no deal risk is a worry for Germany, Holland, France and is generating negotiating leverage. Im not the sure such worry would encourage the EU to allow a deal with no backstop.....probably not.


We need to jump before go down with them...
 
We need to jump before go down with them...

Lol. You should think that through and look at EU gdp growth and compare that to the UK as well as factor in China and the worlds slowing growth.
 
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