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		By: Kerry		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kerry]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/its-not-all-about-the-money-mr-prime-minister-there-are-the-political-factors-to-consider/#comment-1558645&quot;&gt;M.&lt;/a&gt;.

What&#039;s the difference, really?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/its-not-all-about-the-money-mr-prime-minister-there-are-the-political-factors-to-consider/#comment-1558645">M.</a>.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the difference, really?</p>
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		By: tragic		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tragic]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If he has such great business acumen, why didn&#039;t he stay in the family business and spare us all.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If he has such great business acumen, why didn&#8217;t he stay in the family business and spare us all.</p>
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		By: Chris Ripard		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Ripard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/its-not-all-about-the-money-mr-prime-minister-there-are-the-political-factors-to-consider/#comment-1558667&quot;&gt;H.P. Baxxter&lt;/a&gt;.

Won&#039;t work, Baxx - if you put even as little as €5 in someone&#039;s pocket in this country, he&#039;ll suck you off in public for life.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/its-not-all-about-the-money-mr-prime-minister-there-are-the-political-factors-to-consider/#comment-1558667">H.P. Baxxter</a>.</p>
<p>Won&#8217;t work, Baxx &#8211; if you put even as little as €5 in someone&#8217;s pocket in this country, he&#8217;ll suck you off in public for life.</p>
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		By: me		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[me]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just to put &#039;the strongest economy&#039; in perspective&#039;

2012 GDP in $:

China:        6,091
USA:        51,794
Germany: 41,863
UK:           39,093
Malta:       20,848

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just to put &#8216;the strongest economy&#8217; in perspective&#8217;</p>
<p>2012 GDP in $:</p>
<p>China:        6,091<br />
USA:        51,794<br />
Germany: 41,863<br />
UK:           39,093<br />
Malta:       20,848</p>
<p><a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD" rel="nofollow ugc">http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD</a></p>
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		By: H.P. Baxxter		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[H.P. Baxxter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/its-not-all-about-the-money-mr-prime-minister-there-are-the-political-factors-to-consider/#comment-1558668&quot;&gt;Jozef&lt;/a&gt;.

Actually, the world&#039;s largest economy hasn&#039;t enough energy sources to feed its vast consumption. So it buys its energy from one of the world&#039;s not largest economies. From Russia.

There. 

And it also copies everything from everyone, including the world&#039;s smallest economies, but that&#039;s by the by.

At the risk of sounding racist - not that I care - here it is: The Chinese haven&#039;t invented jack shit in the last two thousand years. We, the Europeans, invented everything. They copied everything off us. So who&#039;s the largest economy now?

Of course Joseph Muscat isn&#039;t really European so he wouldn&#039;t see it that way.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/its-not-all-about-the-money-mr-prime-minister-there-are-the-political-factors-to-consider/#comment-1558668">Jozef</a>.</p>
<p>Actually, the world&#8217;s largest economy hasn&#8217;t enough energy sources to feed its vast consumption. So it buys its energy from one of the world&#8217;s not largest economies. From Russia.</p>
<p>There. </p>
<p>And it also copies everything from everyone, including the world&#8217;s smallest economies, but that&#8217;s by the by.</p>
<p>At the risk of sounding racist &#8211; not that I care &#8211; here it is: The Chinese haven&#8217;t invented jack shit in the last two thousand years. We, the Europeans, invented everything. They copied everything off us. So who&#8217;s the largest economy now?</p>
<p>Of course Joseph Muscat isn&#8217;t really European so he wouldn&#8217;t see it that way.</p>
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		By: Jozef		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jozef]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yes, the world&#039;s second largest economy, which however has one fatal flaw; no internal market. 

Given the major long drawn dip in demand, as well as an innate inability to provide education and emancipation rights to the remote provinces, preferring to displace millions into its megacities, China&#039;s economy tethers on collapse. 

The problem central government has are wayward figures registered year on year, if it&#039;s growth, it shoots to near meltdown, if it&#039;s a slowdown, it decelerates to a stop on a dime. No internal market means no dampening mass leading to erratic overcompensating maneouvres. 

The damper however, requires radical democratic progress, it can be said an internal market requires the rights to choose. 

People can&#039;t be forced to give up their life, poor it may be to fill the ghost cities, to date, over tens of millions of empty apartments. Nor can one move smoothly to wealth if it means Beijing smothered permanently in a dense thick fog. 

That&#039;s not an open market, that&#039;s the Communist Party&#039;s caricature of what they think it is. 

As soon as Angela Merkel renounces her idiotic energetic strategy and do away with Germany&#039;s dependence on cheap silicon, China&#039;s in deepest trouble.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, the world&#8217;s second largest economy, which however has one fatal flaw; no internal market. </p>
<p>Given the major long drawn dip in demand, as well as an innate inability to provide education and emancipation rights to the remote provinces, preferring to displace millions into its megacities, China&#8217;s economy tethers on collapse. </p>
<p>The problem central government has are wayward figures registered year on year, if it&#8217;s growth, it shoots to near meltdown, if it&#8217;s a slowdown, it decelerates to a stop on a dime. No internal market means no dampening mass leading to erratic overcompensating maneouvres. </p>
<p>The damper however, requires radical democratic progress, it can be said an internal market requires the rights to choose. </p>
<p>People can&#8217;t be forced to give up their life, poor it may be to fill the ghost cities, to date, over tens of millions of empty apartments. Nor can one move smoothly to wealth if it means Beijing smothered permanently in a dense thick fog. </p>
<p>That&#8217;s not an open market, that&#8217;s the Communist Party&#8217;s caricature of what they think it is. </p>
<p>As soon as Angela Merkel renounces her idiotic energetic strategy and do away with Germany&#8217;s dependence on cheap silicon, China&#8217;s in deepest trouble.</p>
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		By: H.P. Baxxter		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[H.P. Baxxter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[it&#039;s in bad form to say I told you so, but I told you so. 

Politics is not about money. J&#039;accuse more than Joseph Muscat - the foundation was laid by his predecessors too - but he manifests a pathological obsession with money to new disgusting depths. 

Therefore, listen up: what we need is a man to show us that politics is NOT about money. Simon Busuttil could and SHOULD be that man. He has the right sort of intelligence, the right temperament, and his CV proclaims as much. 

So what is he waiting for?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it&#8217;s in bad form to say I told you so, but I told you so. </p>
<p>Politics is not about money. J&#8217;accuse more than Joseph Muscat &#8211; the foundation was laid by his predecessors too &#8211; but he manifests a pathological obsession with money to new disgusting depths. </p>
<p>Therefore, listen up: what we need is a man to show us that politics is NOT about money. Simon Busuttil could and SHOULD be that man. He has the right sort of intelligence, the right temperament, and his CV proclaims as much. </p>
<p>So what is he waiting for?</p>
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		By: La Redoute		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[La Redoute]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/its-not-all-about-the-money-mr-prime-minister-there-are-the-political-factors-to-consider/#comment-1558524&quot;&gt;vanni&lt;/a&gt;.

China is run as a communist state, not as a business. Whatever it does, the payoff is political.

Do you imagine that China holds a large chunk of the US foreign debt because of the attractive interest rates?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/its-not-all-about-the-money-mr-prime-minister-there-are-the-political-factors-to-consider/#comment-1558524">vanni</a>.</p>
<p>China is run as a communist state, not as a business. Whatever it does, the payoff is political.</p>
<p>Do you imagine that China holds a large chunk of the US foreign debt because of the attractive interest rates?</p>
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		By: M.		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[M.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With his attitude, if Muscat were a woman, he&#039;d have been sleeping around to get what he wants. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With his attitude, if Muscat were a woman, he&#8217;d have been sleeping around to get what he wants. </p>
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		By: Joe Fenech		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Fenech]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wish one could say &quot;why bother about this sod&quot; but he happens to be the PM that a nation, with a high population of pedigree ignoramusus, elected.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wish one could say &#8220;why bother about this sod&#8221; but he happens to be the PM that a nation, with a high population of pedigree ignoramusus, elected.</p>
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