{"id":682,"date":"2014-10-26T19:44:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T23:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=682"},"modified":"2014-10-26T19:44:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T23:44:37","slug":"the-mother-of-all-jobs-in-the-eu-wolf-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"The Mother of all Jobs in the EU | Wolf Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wolfstreet.com\/2014\/10\/25\/the-mother-of-all-jobs-in-the-eu\/\">The Mother of all Jobs in the EU | Wolf Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: bold;\">Ironically, the more Eurocrats try to integrate the EU through imposition of fiscal, monetary, banking, and political straitjackets, the closer the Union comes to disintegration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">B<\/em><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">y<\/em><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">\u00a0Don Quijones<\/em><\/strong><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">, freelance writer, translator in Barcelona, Spain. Editor at\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; color: #0009c4;\" href=\"http:\/\/wolfstreet.com\/author\/don-quijones\/\" target=\"_blank\">WOLF STREET<\/a>. Mexico is his country-in-law.\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; color: #0009c4;\" href=\"http:\/\/ragingbullshit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: bold;\">Raging Bull-Shit<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is his modest attempt to scrub away the lathers of soft soap peddled by political and business leaders and their loyal mainstream media.\u00a0This article is a Wolf Street exclusive<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">As of a few days ago, the European Union\u00a0has a new government and president to run its affairs. In the deeply dysfunctional model of European \u201cdemocracy,\u201d neither the Commission not its President were elected by European voters. Only\u00a0the 400-odd comfortably closeted MEPs had a chance to vote on them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">The new President is Jean-Claude Juncker, a man who notoriously confessed to lying only when the going gets tough and who, as prime-minister of Luxembourg for close to two decades, is largely credited with reinventing the tiny landlocked principality into one of Europe\u2019s largest tax havens and dirty money channels (just behind Switzerland and the City of London).<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mother of all Jobs in the EU | Wolf Street. Ironically, the more Eurocrats try to integrate the EU through imposition of fiscal, monetary, banking, and political straitjackets, the closer the Union comes to disintegration. 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