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	Comments on: Times of Malta today: &#8216;Maltese exports continue to slide&#8217;	</title>
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		By: Tabatha White		</title>
		<link>https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1958387</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tabatha White]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2014 11:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1958380&quot;&gt;Tabatha White&lt;/a&gt;.

To make matter worse, it&#039;s actually 208.33 euro before the round off.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1958380">Tabatha White</a>.</p>
<p>To make matter worse, it&#8217;s actually 208.33 euro before the round off.</p>
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		By: Tabatha White		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tabatha White]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2014 11:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1948727&quot;&gt;xejn b&#039; xejn&lt;/a&gt;.

You see, the message is in the manner of communication:

If people are so stupid as to not to see the difference, so deaf as to not to hear it then the simple thing to do is to break it down:

Based on 480,000 as the population:

The NP gave every single person 208 euro.
whereas the MLP is promising to give 0.02 euro, or 2 euro cents in June 2014, if it manages to keep this promise without cheating.

Now let them compare.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1948727">xejn b&#8217; xejn</a>.</p>
<p>You see, the message is in the manner of communication:</p>
<p>If people are so stupid as to not to see the difference, so deaf as to not to hear it then the simple thing to do is to break it down:</p>
<p>Based on 480,000 as the population:</p>
<p>The NP gave every single person 208 euro.<br />
whereas the MLP is promising to give 0.02 euro, or 2 euro cents in June 2014, if it manages to keep this promise without cheating.</p>
<p>Now let them compare.</p>
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		By: kev		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kev]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 23:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1949986&quot;&gt;Calculator&lt;/a&gt;.

Related: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-16/real-reason-draghi-will-do-whatever-it-takes-crush-euro]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1949986">Calculator</a>.</p>
<p>Related: <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-16/real-reason-draghi-will-do-whatever-it-takes-crush-euro" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-16/real-reason-draghi-will-do-whatever-it-takes-crush-euro</a></p>
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		By: kev		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kev]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 20:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1949986&quot;&gt;Calculator&lt;/a&gt;.

The eurozone is not recovering. On the contrary the ECB is set to start the money printing machine because &#039;inflation is too low&#039; and the &#039;euro is too strong&#039;. (You see, in a topsy turvy world where money is debt, you need to kill off savings and raise prices by creating more money... always at an interest - and that&#039;s the catch.)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1949986">Calculator</a>.</p>
<p>The eurozone is not recovering. On the contrary the ECB is set to start the money printing machine because &#8216;inflation is too low&#8217; and the &#8216;euro is too strong&#8217;. (You see, in a topsy turvy world where money is debt, you need to kill off savings and raise prices by creating more money&#8230; always at an interest &#8211; and that&#8217;s the catch.)</p>
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		By: White coat		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[White coat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 12:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our economy is analogous to a game of snooker. Each of the snooker balls on the table are impacted by the movements of the others. When the white cue-ball hits another coloured ball, a series of events is created, repositioning some or more, if not all, other balls and causing a net change on the snooker table. This change will be directly proportional to the force of the original kick transmitted to the white cue ball by the snooker player. The stronger the kick, the stronger the shock and the greater the change and therefore the repositioning of the other balls and the &#039;situation&#039; on the soccer table.

Joseph Muscat has created a major repositioning of our economy with two very strong kicks, the IIP and Chinese &#039;investment&#039;. These have forced a repositioning of all our investment, economic and financial paradigm. 

One of the first effects on our economy was foreign investment, which has seen a drastic reduction. This does not need much brain matter to understand since serious investors would be very reluctant to invest in a place where national policy could be impacted, if not dictated, by the self-interest of millionaires and billionaires buying their passports in a cloak-and-dagger way without real scrutiny and in cahoots with the local powers that be, including their total protection of secrecy by the local police big heads, banana-republic style.

The reduction in foreign investment has now impacted on our manufacturing and servicing sectors which have impacted on our local commercial activities. Uncertainty has taken over with many local investors reducing their activities, thus banks have seen their level of loans crash with the risk of bigger problems for them if this persists for more than another year.

This uncertainty has filtered down to the individual/family-unit level causing spending to be reduced to the bare necessities for many people who depend on wages that originate, directly, indirectly or by proxy, from industrial and other activities that are suffering from loss of orders, production, exports and other ills.

If the Maltese people cannot realise this, then someone has to tell them. I&#039;m pretty sure that Joseph Muscat would not be the one to do such a thing, but I would expect that the mainstream media financial gurus and THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION are in duty bound to explain all this to the people. But I suspect that Simon Busuttil is afraid of being accused of NEGATIVITY.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our economy is analogous to a game of snooker. Each of the snooker balls on the table are impacted by the movements of the others. When the white cue-ball hits another coloured ball, a series of events is created, repositioning some or more, if not all, other balls and causing a net change on the snooker table. This change will be directly proportional to the force of the original kick transmitted to the white cue ball by the snooker player. The stronger the kick, the stronger the shock and the greater the change and therefore the repositioning of the other balls and the &#8216;situation&#8217; on the soccer table.</p>
<p>Joseph Muscat has created a major repositioning of our economy with two very strong kicks, the IIP and Chinese &#8216;investment&#8217;. These have forced a repositioning of all our investment, economic and financial paradigm. </p>
<p>One of the first effects on our economy was foreign investment, which has seen a drastic reduction. This does not need much brain matter to understand since serious investors would be very reluctant to invest in a place where national policy could be impacted, if not dictated, by the self-interest of millionaires and billionaires buying their passports in a cloak-and-dagger way without real scrutiny and in cahoots with the local powers that be, including their total protection of secrecy by the local police big heads, banana-republic style.</p>
<p>The reduction in foreign investment has now impacted on our manufacturing and servicing sectors which have impacted on our local commercial activities. Uncertainty has taken over with many local investors reducing their activities, thus banks have seen their level of loans crash with the risk of bigger problems for them if this persists for more than another year.</p>
<p>This uncertainty has filtered down to the individual/family-unit level causing spending to be reduced to the bare necessities for many people who depend on wages that originate, directly, indirectly or by proxy, from industrial and other activities that are suffering from loss of orders, production, exports and other ills.</p>
<p>If the Maltese people cannot realise this, then someone has to tell them. I&#8217;m pretty sure that Joseph Muscat would not be the one to do such a thing, but I would expect that the mainstream media financial gurus and THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION are in duty bound to explain all this to the people. But I suspect that Simon Busuttil is afraid of being accused of NEGATIVITY.</p>
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		By: Drood		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 10:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If the Eurozone economies are on the mend, it always takes two years for the effect to percolate to the Maltese economy.

What are Muscat&#039;s plans in all spheres beginning Monday 26th May. The roadmap requires a complete rewrite not tweaking here and there - reminds me of it-tbazwir ta&#039; Alfred Sant.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the Eurozone economies are on the mend, it always takes two years for the effect to percolate to the Maltese economy.</p>
<p>What are Muscat&#8217;s plans in all spheres beginning Monday 26th May. The roadmap requires a complete rewrite not tweaking here and there &#8211; reminds me of it-tbazwir ta&#8217; Alfred Sant.</p>
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		By: Drood		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 09:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1949353&quot;&gt;La Redoute&lt;/a&gt;.

kev : Can you let us have a forwarding address (preferably in Malta to save on the postage) to return the Eurosceptic tripe leaflets your wife has been sending us? ]]></description>
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<p>kev : Can you let us have a forwarding address (preferably in Malta to save on the postage) to return the Eurosceptic tripe leaflets your wife has been sending us? </p>
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		By: White coat		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[White coat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 09:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The good news is that exports cannot go down by more than 100%]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The good news is that exports cannot go down by more than 100%</p>
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		By: Makjavel		</title>
		<link>https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1952232</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Makjavel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 08:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1950493&quot;&gt;Dave&lt;/a&gt;.

It is not the change that is interesting , it is the rate of change DOWNWARDS which is FRIGHTENING.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1950493">Dave</a>.</p>
<p>It is not the change that is interesting , it is the rate of change DOWNWARDS which is FRIGHTENING.</p>
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		By: Jozef		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jozef]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 08:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1949353&quot;&gt;La Redoute&lt;/a&gt;.

Sharon sent me a leaflet asking me to vote il-kandidati ewroxettici. 

Lovely alliance she got there, Marine Le Pen and Franz Obermayer joint top of the % absence list, Kent Ekeroth was last seen threatening a woman with a metal bar outside a pub and Philip Claeys insists on splitting Belgium in half in his spare time, call it practice. 

Anything to get funding.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/times-of-malta-today-maltese-exports-continue-to-slide/#comment-1949353">La Redoute</a>.</p>
<p>Sharon sent me a leaflet asking me to vote il-kandidati ewroxettici. </p>
<p>Lovely alliance she got there, Marine Le Pen and Franz Obermayer joint top of the % absence list, Kent Ekeroth was last seen threatening a woman with a metal bar outside a pub and Philip Claeys insists on splitting Belgium in half in his spare time, call it practice. </p>
<p>Anything to get funding.</p>
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