{"id":3942,"date":"2010-06-30T06:29:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T14:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2010-06-30T06:29:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T14:29:54","slug":"eu-borrowing-and-deutschemark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/eu-borrowing-and-deutschemark\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Borrowing and Deutsche Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/tower-of-babel-eu-poster.gif\" alt=\"European Union Tower of Babel Poster\" \/><br \/>\nEuropean Babylonian Unity Poster<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EU banks borrowed less than feared, which helped the Euro:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"meta-information\">\n<h2>EU banks borrow less than feared<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"width: 226px;\"> <\/span>EU banks have borrowed  less than expected from the European Central Bank, easing concerns about  liquidity among financial institutions.After Tuesday&#8217;s sharp falls, stock markets and the euro  stabilised on news that the ECB had agreed three-month loans worth  131.9bn euros (\u00a3108bn).<\/p>\n<p>This compared with the 150bn to 200bn euros many had  expected.<\/p>\n<p>The euro rose almost a cent against the pound, while European  stock markets also made gains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It certainly implies that strains in the wholesale funding  market are less acute than some feared, and that fewer banks than it was  thought are being deprived of finance from commercial sources,&#8221; said  BBC business editor Robert Peston.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/10460181.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/10460181.stm<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the other hand, at least half of Germans are wondering if the Deutsche Mark would be better than the Euro:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!-- BODY,.aolmailheader     {font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:Arial;} a.aolmailheader:link    {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:visited {color:magenta; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:active  {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:hover   {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} --><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"><strong>Half of Germans want the Deutsche mark  back<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>The Local<\/strong> &#8211; June 29,  2010<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Eleven years after the introduction of the euro  every second German still longs for the return of the Deutsche mark, according  to a new poll published on Tuesday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Some 51 percent of those surveyed by market research  institute Ipsos admitted they wanted their old currency back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just 30  percent said that they rejected the idea, while another 18 percent were  undecided, the Hamburg-based institute reported.<\/p>\n<p>German confidence in  Europe&#8217;s single currency has been rocked in recent months by the Greek debt  crisis and the eurozone&#8217;s ensuing bailout of Athens. Though it remains  considerably stronger versus the US dollar than the mark was back in 1998, the  euro&#8217;s precipitous decline has sparked concern in Europe&#8217;s largest economy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Some 1,000 representative Germans between the ages of 16 ad 64 were interviewed  between April 9 and 12 for the results.\u00a0 <a title=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/money\/20100629-28177.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/money\/20100629-28177.html\">http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/money\/20100629-28177.html<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As I have written before, the Euro may or may not be the final world reserve currency.\u00a0 And despite concerns about Greece and Germany (to name only two), there was always expected to be problems with European unity according biblical prophecy (e.g. Daniel 2:41-42).<\/p>\n<p>But as the recent G20 meetings also showed, the Europeans appear more committed to actually reducing their deficits than the USA does.\u00a0 Notice one news report:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>G20 summit agrees on deficit cuts by 2013&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>US President Barack Obama warned against fast and deep budget cuts,  fearing damage to global growth.<\/p>\n<p>But European members, including the UK, France, and Germany,  have already led moves to slash record public deficits, despite  opposition from the United States which is expected to run a $1.3tn  deficit in 2010.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/10429446.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/10429446.stm<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I have written before, for the Europeans to be considered the economic replacement for the USA, their finances do not have to be perfect, they only need to be perceived as being in better shape than the USA&#8217;s.\u00a0 And they seem to be taking steps for this to happen.\u00a0 Do not be surprised if the EU&#8217;s President, Herman von Rompuy, does not propose and implement some type of tax increase (cf. Daniel 11:20).\u00a0 This would also probably reduce the EU&#8217;s debt faster than any debt reductions in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>This does not mean that there will not be economic or other problems in Europe.\u00a0 It just seems that the Europeans are more determined to come out on top in the long run than the Americans do.\u00a0 And that is consistent with biblical prophecy.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information, please check out the following:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/barack-obama-prophecy-antichrist.htm\">Prophecies   of Barack Obama? <\/a>Are there biblical and non-biblical prophecies   about Barack Obama. Did Nostradamus predict Barack Obama dealing  with        the Antichrist?\u00a0 This is a lengthy article with many  prophecies    that     Barack Obama may end up fulfilling.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Permanent Link to Barack Obama, Prophecy, and the Destruction         of the United States\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"\/news\/prophecy\/barack-obama-and-the-destruction-of-the-united-states\">Barack    Obama, Prophecy, and the Destruction of the United   States<\/a> Some       claim that Barack Obama is the prophesied \u201cson of Kenya\u201d.    Might    Bible    prophecy be fulfilled by him?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/europa.htm\">Europa, the Beast, and   Revelation<\/a> Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to   do with the Book of Revelation? What about \u201cthe Beast\u201d? Is an emerging   European power \u201cthe daughter of Babylon\u201d? What is ahead for Europe?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/britishisrael.htm\">Anglo \u2013 America in      Prophecy &amp; the  Lost Tribes of Israel<\/a> Are the Americans,    Canadians, British, Scottish, Welsh, Australians, Anglo-Southern      Africans, and New Zealanders descendants of Joseph? Where are the lost      ten-tribes of Israel? Who are the lost tribes of Israel? Will God    punish   the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and other Anglo nations?    Why might   God allow them to be punished first?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Babylonian Unity Poster COGwriter EU banks borrowed less than feared, which helped the Euro: EU banks borrow less than feared EU banks have borrowed less than expected from the European Central Bank, easing concerns about liquidity among financial institutions.After Tuesday&#8217;s sharp falls, stock markets and the euro stabilised on news that the ECB had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prophecy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3943,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}