"Europe is quietly rotting out"

Thomas Ferguson, Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts-Boston, provides a quick overview of the state of affairs in Europe -- and it ain't pretty.

(~31:00 - 41:00)
radxsays...

What does that have to do with this talk/conference about the devestating effects of austerity within the eurozone?

Yogisaid:

Is the next argument going to be Europe will die because it failed to keep it's Genetics "Pure"?

gharksays...

He didn't really provide any unknown information, and also didn't mention the most pertinent issue which is that there is plenty of wealth, it's just concentrated in fewer hands.

radxsays...

The abundance of profits looking for a purpose was detailed by other panelists during the conference. In fact, either Yanis Varoufakis or Stuart Holland layed out their plan to use the EIB to tap into these unused mountains of cash and direct them towards a massive investment program.

That said, every single one of these 10-15 minute talks is focused on one specific part of the problem or a possible solution and I don't think I could get 10 votes for an entire panel, much less the entire conference. This video was my probe to see if anyone's interested at all. Which is also why it's rather general in nature and doesn't depend on a priori knowledge about the structure of the eurozone.

gharksaid:

He didn't really provide any unknown information, and also didn't mention the most pertinent issue which is that there is plenty of wealth, it's just concentrated in fewer hands.

gharksays...

Ahh interesting, I'll have to watch the rest. Definitely a good video, so thanks for sharing. It seems like something worthwhile to watch if you want to get some in-depth analysis without getting as much of the bias that's in the regular news channels because each speaker has their own perogative, rather than every newscaster conforming to what their channel wants.

radxsaid:

The abundance of profits looking for a purpose was detailed by other panelists during the conference. in fact, either Yanis Varoufakis or Stuart Holland layed out their plan to use the EIB to tap into these unused mountains of cash and direct them towards a massive investment program.

That said, every single one of these 10-15 minute talks is focused on one specific part of the problem or a possible solution and I don't think I could get 10 votes for an entire panel, much less the entire conference. This video was my probe to see if anyone's interested at all. Which is also why it's rather general in nature and doesn't depend on a priori knowledge about the structure of the eurozone.

radxsays...

Just to avoid any confusion: this post is just about the talk by Ferguson, which lasts ~9:40. TubeChop has been wonky on my end for a few months now, so I decided to just take the clip in its entirety and mark the excerpt in question by hand.

Given the fact that YT's API does not implement any stop mark for playback, it is technically longer than 10 minutes. But since the actually intended content does not meet the criteria, I tried to avoid marking it as long...

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