Doom And Gloom ...

... sometimes I don't know who's worse: Debbie Downer or CNBC?

When one sees these stories, the first question one should ask is: why was this story posted at this particular time?

Since this story predicts the state of the European economy in 2025, this story could have been posted yesterday, today, tomorrow, a week from now, or a year from now.

This story helps divert attention from how bad things are in the US due to five years of current administration policies (or non-policies). The one two consistent policies this administration has had:

• kill the coal industry
• slow-roll the oil and gas industry

Now, back to the linked story.

Does anyone find it interesting that Arjun Kharpal never mentioned the reason for austerity measures in Europe? Not one word about energy; not one word about "green" energy debacles; not one word about huge waste of money spent on wind energy in Spain.

In case the link breaks:

Europe could have another 25 million poor people by 2025 as the effects of austerity measures are felt across the continent, a leading poverty charity warned on Thursday.

This would bring the total number of people living in poverty across Europe to 146 million, almost a third of the population and it could take up to 25 years to regain the living standards people enjoyed five years ago, according to Oxfam. 

But they will still be building windmills.  And playing great music:

Spanish Music

But I still prefer "El":

Cancion del Mariachi Desperado, Antonio Banderas