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Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis

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Re: Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis

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The Economist has often badmouthed Italy. The title is way too sensationalist. The comment section also highlights this ethnic bias. I will never forget their insulting cover from years ago: http://static.fanpage.it/socialmediafanpage/wp-content/uploa.... Just clickbaits and provocations.

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The Economist has often badmouthed Italy. The title is way too sensationalist. The comment section also highlights this ethnic bias. I will never forget their insulting cover from years ago: http://static.fanpage.it/socialmediafanpage/wp-content/uploa... . Just clickbaits and provocations.

If not Italy, what do you think would be Europe's next couple economic crisis countries?

Re: Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis

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The Economist has often badmouthed Italy. The title is way too sensationalist. The comment section also highlights this ethnic bias. I will never forget their insulting cover from years ago: http://static.fanpage.it/socialmediafanpage/wp-content/uploa... . Just clickbaits and provocations.

To be honest, that cover looks like a perfectly fair and accurate assessment of both men.

Re: Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis

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The Economist has often badmouthed Italy. The title is way too sensationalist. The comment section also highlights this ethnic bias. I will never forget their insulting cover from years ago: http://static.fanpage.it/socialmediafanpage/wp-content/uploa... . Just clickbaits and provocations.

I really do not have context about Italy and Economist, but this issue has been predicted and talked about by others.

Here is one of them. https://geopoliticalfutures.com/italy-and-systemic-failure/

Re: Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis

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post #3

The Economist has often badmouthed Italy. The title is way too sensationalist. The comment section also highlights this ethnic bias. I will never forget their insulting cover from years ago: http://static.fanpage.it/socialmediafanpage/wp-content/uploa... . Just clickbaits and provocations.

If not Italy, what do you think would be Europe's next couple economic crisis countries?

Here in EU, ironically, the talk these weeks is about German Banks... yeah, I too was surprised.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/10/deutsche-ba...

Re: Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis

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The Economist has often badmouthed Italy. The title is way too sensationalist. The comment section also highlights this ethnic bias. I will never forget their insulting cover from years ago: http://static.fanpage.it/socialmediafanpage/wp-content/uploa... . Just clickbaits and provocations.

You're saying that cover is insulting to clowns?

Having lived most of the past 15 years in Italy, I think a lot of the criticism is justified.

Re: Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis

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The Economist has often badmouthed Italy. The title is way too sensationalist. The comment section also highlights this ethnic bias. I will never forget their insulting cover from years ago: http://static.fanpage.it/socialmediafanpage/wp-content/uploa... . Just clickbaits and provocations.

It doesn't matter. The facts are the facts and the Italian banking system is in big trouble.

Re: Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis

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post #7

The Economist has often badmouthed Italy. The title is way too sensationalist. The comment section also highlights this ethnic bias. I will never forget their insulting cover from years ago: http://static.fanpage.it/socialmediafanpage/wp-content/uploa... . Just clickbaits and provocations.

You're saying that cover is insulting to clowns? Having lived most of the past 15 years in Italy, I think a lot of the criticism is justified.

What do you think the likelihood is of a run on Italian banks? I'm curious if you're average Italian citizen is aware of what a supposed bail in would subject depositors to (anything above a certain euro amount would be wiped out, such that occurred in Cyprus as one of the links in this thread notes).

Re: Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis

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The Economist has often badmouthed Italy. The title is way too sensationalist. The comment section also highlights this ethnic bias. I will never forget their insulting cover from years ago: http://static.fanpage.it/socialmediafanpage/wp-content/uploa... . Just clickbaits and provocations.

> highlights this ethnic bias

They've done that to a lot of British & American politicians.

They've been harder on Trump than they were on Berlusconi. And face it, both Berlusconi and Grillo were professional "pagliacci".

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