Study the greek economy & politics from the period 1990-2012 and you might find a lot of similarities with that is currently happening in the US. Greece experienced a credit boom from 1990-2008, people however were living above their means. We faced the biggest bubble in Greece's economic history during the 1999 when everybody was playing the stock market! and i mean everybody! i remember my father telling me that the biggest sign he saw that the bubble was about to pop was when his mother in law (late 99) came and told him that she wanted to play the stock market as well! When he asked her why she replied: because the other granny across the street is making money... That was the sing! who the hell was left to buy????
Then the bubble popped together with the .com bubble but people were not selling in the contrary in 2003 they start borrowing and selling their houses,farms whatever they had and played all in! because in their mind and in the media that was the bottom! The ultimate buy the dip!!!then we had the golden age of modern Greece! Various outstanding sports events wins! like the Euro 2004, beating the US Basketball Team, and the cherry on top hosting the Olympic Games of 2004, oh boy euphoria was back in the game and this time for good! We were borrowing more and more money to live a life we could not support! our debt got bigger and bigger but when the 08 housing market popped it was time for us to pay our debts!
You know what happened next! check the graph here (www.capital.gr/finan...e/chart/technical/ΓΔ) but only till 2012 because then we had to recapitalize our banks 4 times so the graph is not representative of the whole market. From a political perspective the 2 biggest political parties left and right had to form a government together in order go through this tough period. Our debt was restructured and taxation went sky high! especially for the middle class who paid the majority of the bill!
How are things now? well we sold almost all our assets to foreign investors/countries for peanuts! we got used after 10 years to a -50% income and prices are something like 100%-200% higher than 2000...
Then the bubble popped together with the .com bubble but people were not selling in the contrary in 2003 they start borrowing and selling their houses,farms whatever they had and played all in! because in their mind and in the media that was the bottom! The ultimate buy the dip!!!then we had the golden age of modern Greece! Various outstanding sports events wins! like the Euro 2004, beating the US Basketball Team, and the cherry on top hosting the Olympic Games of 2004, oh boy euphoria was back in the game and this time for good! We were borrowing more and more money to live a life we could not support! our debt got bigger and bigger but when the 08 housing market popped it was time for us to pay our debts!
You know what happened next! check the graph here (www.capital.gr/finan...e/chart/technical/ΓΔ) but only till 2012 because then we had to recapitalize our banks 4 times so the graph is not representative of the whole market. From a political perspective the 2 biggest political parties left and right had to form a government together in order go through this tough period. Our debt was restructured and taxation went sky high! especially for the middle class who paid the majority of the bill!
How are things now? well we sold almost all our assets to foreign investors/countries for peanuts! we got used after 10 years to a -50% income and prices are something like 100%-200% higher than 2000...
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And let's not forget.. Olympics 2028 are held by United States!!!