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[Steelrain]

Banks are important because other banks and wealthy people rely on them and they have us all by the balls. Gotcha.

You might as well have posted this:

 

[Wazzim]

What's led you to believe that? It's been 4 years and the Irish economy isn't looking too hot. I don't think 4 years is too early to call austerity a failure. If Mitt Romney thinks the US's recovery is anemic, I wonder what he'd think of Ireland's. Amazing isn't what i'd use to describe it though.

And just in case you say, hey, that GDP chart only goes to 2010,

Anybody that's interested in this stuff should read Paul Krugman's blog. The guy's been on the money for years.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/

All the IMF cares about is if you guys have a big deficit or not. They don't give a crap about the actual state of the economy.
The more countries need a loan, the more money the IMF makes, the more powerful and important the whole organisation becomes.

 

[j_k_redtail]

60 Minutes did a segment on Greece last week (which I imagine our Greek members will strongly dislike) - here it is, though, for your consumption

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZI1RFdvnGs

 

[Kabouter]

60 Minutes did a segment on Greece last week (which I imagine our Greek members will strongly dislike) - here it is, though, for your consumption

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZI1RFdvnGs

Presumably, our Greek members won't be able to watch it either, just like me here in the Netherlands.
Edit: Strangely, the video plays fine on cbsnews.com
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7404666n