Greece Crisis bigger than Euro Zone
by MadRantz on May.17, 2012, under Asia-Pacific, Daily Buzz, E-Toro, Eurozone/Africom, Finance, Forex, Forex Million Dollar Journey, General, Madrantz Espanol, Rant of The Day, The Americas, World-Regional
Nearly every economist has their own crazy story about the Greek economy (for example, there are only a handful of people registered as millionaires for tax purposes in Greece but 250,000 private swimming pools). Tax evasion and corruption in the public sector are endemic in Greece. The Greek government finds it impossible to collect the taxes that it needs to keep a lid on public spending. Membership to the Euro is preventing Greece from devaluing its currency to make exports cheaper and to increase tourism.
A potentially longer-term risk from Greece’s retroactive CACs lies in what Charles Blitzer, a former IMF staffer involved in a series of restructurings, described as the “knock-off effect on peripheral euro-zone countries.” He argues that “exchanging the underlying law of sovereign bonds ex-post is entirely unprecedented” and creates a negative precedent in the euro-zone bond market.
For now, many market participants remain sanguine about the risk of a restructuring in Portugal, another bailout recipient that’s often portrayed as the next domino after Greece. Deutsche Bank analysts argued in a recent research note that “the comparisons between Portugal and Greece are overdone,” citing a better “political configuration in Lisbon,” its more aggressive delivery of “fiscal retrenchment,” and that fact that its “public debt is unlikely to get to Greece’s staggering levels.”
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by MadRantz on May.17, 2012, under Asia-Pacific, Daily Buzz, E-Toro, Eurozone/Africom, Finance, Forex, Forex Million Dollar Journey, General, Madrantz Espanol, The Americas, World-Regional
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After losing ground in the last four trading sessions, futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) are wallowing in the red ahead of the bell. In fact, it could be another ugly day for U.S. stocks, with the S&P 500 Index (SPX) and the Nasdaq Composite (COMP) falling in step with European markets.
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- The U.S. dollar index is pointed north this morning, with the greenback 0.2% higher at $81.54.
- Crude oil is churning around breakeven, with crude for June delivery last seen at $93.20 per barrel.
- After closing at their lowest level in 10 months, gold futures are on the rebound, with the malleable metal up 0.7% at $1,546.60 an ounce.
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by MadRantz on May.15, 2012, under Asia-Pacific, Daily Buzz, Eurozone/Africom, General, Madrantz Espanol, Rant of The Day, SimCountry, SimCountry Gamemaster, SimCountry Politics, The Americas, World-Regional, www.simcountry.com
In these days the SimCountry forum is anything but a place to exchange ideas, critique the game and it’s gamemaster, or just about anything the gamemaster randomly decides is not worthy of his eyes to see.
The slightest complaint, grumble, or statement of concern for the game or the changes the game and it’s players are being subjected to will earn you or your thoughts censorship, even up to a ban for not plainly kissing this guy’s ass(Which for me just ain’t happening – Duh, you guessed right, I’m banned).
But don’t take it from me, take it from The Gamemaster’s records of the forum. Straight from the horse’s mouth. witness the bullshit your money can buy you when you crack open that wallet and swipe your card in order to play what used to be a really sweet game filled with some really unique players.
Taken From: http://howto.simcountry.com/statforum/1/158146.html
Andy(GM)
Sunday, April 22, 2012 – 11:27 am Click here to edit this post
The simcountry forum has been for years a place where players could exchange opinions and deliver criticism towards the gamemaster and towards each other.
We have been very tolerant as to what is acceptable but made very clear that bad language, calling each other and the GM names and introducing offensive materials etc. is unacceptable.
we also do not accept any materials that are damaging to simcountry and will immediately remove the materials and the player.
We have banned players for various periods in the past and will continue to do so without any warning.
Players who place such materials should be aware of the consequences.
The forum will be a place where people are treated with respect and are careful about their language.
The GM will remove without warning anyone who places any such materials.
Banning can be from the forum only but the GM may decide to close the account and block the IP number for an arbitrary period or for ever.
Crafty
Sunday, April 22, 2012 – 07:39 pm Click here to edit this post
But sometimes there is a grey area Andy where what one might think acceptable, you may not, or vice versa. Perhaps a private message or e-mail to the offender explaining where they crossed the line might be good in not so obvious cases, or where its asked for.
All other forums I have used have had a list of prohibited items that is set in stone. Everyone knows exactly where they stand. SC doesn’t have this and you cant rely on the same universal standards amongst a world wide, multi-culture populace.
Christopher Michael Thompson
Sunday, April 22, 2012 – 10:16 pm Click here to edit this post
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Look at this Nazi shit right here. Lol! Talk about intimidation. You pay to play a game and these are the kind of threats you get? You have to wonder why any Gamemaster would have to post something like that. Not in response to anything that was worthy of a threat, but instead posted as a veiled threat not to criticize or question anything they do, or you could find yourself subject to a ban, not only from the forum but from the game itself. Wow. This guy has some real issues with insecurity or needs to stay the fuck out of conversation with players, period. You can’t accept people’s money and then not expect to get a report on customer service or quality of what product you bought into. What the fuck kind of shit is this? Fuck you pay me! That is like going to restaurant, telling them you’ve got a hair and an insect in your meal, and they tell you to get out because you are a bad customer for not eating that shit and shutting up about it to boot.
Andy even goes an extra mile to get to what he really wants to say, and even threatens to ban a player’s account(that you paid for) for dissent. Notice the lack of a response from Andy to Crafty. No explanation, no clarity on what is or is not “acceptable” or “ban-able”.
Complete bullshit. The purpose was not to disclose to anyone what to or not to do, but rather to threaten players thinking of complaining(and rightfully so) and purposefully remain as vague as possible in order to ban you and then figure out what excuse they can use other than they don’t like what you said.
Oh but wait, you must think it is just me. I’m just some problem player who says all kind of ignorant shit and get’s banned and I’m just whining. Right? Wrong!
Take a look for yourself and see what money buys on the SimCountry Bulletin Boards.
W3C – gold coin transaction, multiple offers – Poor Maclean Afraid to even comment. Wow.
W3C – Game News April 24
What Happened to Customers First????? – Poor Christopher. Talked down to by a GM Tommi posing as Romeo Vicardi. A GM Playing the game and posing as a player. This initially confused Christopher, but Romeo’s true GM identity was confirmed by long time players. No one plays anything for free in SimCountry. Membership is 50 per year. Anyone complaining is threatened, insulted and made to look like a greedy whiny bastard. Do not be fooled. Clearly, players in this thread show where the greed is coming from. Since the GM can’t get more player’s to play due to the shitty changes in SimCountry, he wants all the long time players to swipe 100 or 200 bucks even; to play a 4 bit graphic q-basic powered game engine. Wow.
Raw materials costs are getting uncontrollable. – Just one of the many seemingly random “money sucking ” errors that the GM doesn’t want to acknowledge or address. With players presenting proof and others for apparently no reason distorting the thread to mislead ignorant new players who would have never caught this. They would simply be forced to swipe as the money continues to sucked out of their account like this. Happening all the time. Find one error, another replaces it, until some brainiac exposes their “so called errors” on the forum, like me, banned for doing just this twice now. Ugh.
A very fine community – GM Tommi, posing as a real player. Exposed for another piss poor distortion of reality. Redman sums it up well. No real player is happy about anything going on. not the game changes and especially not the forum bans and censorship.
CEOs broken by new under quality sales strategy. – This is the thread, that started my road to being banned again. I(Inanna in this case) started a thread about how the new forced sale strategies were killing my CEO. It is funny how the top half of the thread has been cut, so you, the public can see me banned and only the accusation of why, but not the proof. I honestly didn’t think they would be dumb enough to publish this. Again notice the lack of quotation of anything I said that was wrong. The topic of the thread is why I was banned and it would be the third such time for starting a thread about 2 errors that were sucking money from my account and players found it as well. I was threatened and banned from the forum because they got caught red handed robbing certain players.
Direct Trading Gold Coins Remove Price Controls – 50 bucks a year isn’t enough. Look how the crisis for gold coins shows who the real greedy bastards are.
Gold Coins Market liquidity crisis – Not my post. But again Andy has his head fit so securely up his own ass it is unbelievable. And then in comes that GM posing as a player again “Romeo” who mysteriously in every instance is defending the Gold Coin move unlike all the other real players. How can he feel so different, on every thread against anything that players deem as a problem worth discussing. Modus Operandi as usual, distort the truth, accuse players of being greedy, cheap, selfish crybabies who should just whip out the plastic and pay more to play a game where the GM isn’t listening to anything you say and bans you for discussing it with or without him on the forum. Wow.
Simcountry: The Direct Trading Issue with the new law layed down…. - Again, Maclean, the voice of reason spelling out what the GM will inevitably accomplish with the new choke on Gold coins. Which you need to do anything.
WOW – Andy + Head + Securely + Up + Own + Ass
Player Banning – Yet Homerdome still speaks, and I am still banned. Conspiracy much?! Could I have been banned for language after this no ban? Or is it becoming clear to you now?
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