Although Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi survived two confidence votes, Italy’s exchange traded fund (ETF) isn’t in the clear. While the government won’t collapse, Italy’s political agony isn’t going away, either.
Berlusconi faced a no confidence motion in the lower house by a group of rebel center-right deputies, according to Money News. Despite his victory, Italy still has big problems: high youth unemployment, an uncompetitive industry, aging infrastructure and low funding on public services.
On the bright side, Italy has some of the highest levels of savers in , banks are doing fine and most of its high public debt is from Italian loaners.
Sylvia Poggioli for NPR remarks that the largest problems facing Italy are political stagnation, a slow growth economy, a strong euro and a high number of unemployed young people ages 15 to 34. For years
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Greg Fowler December - 15 - 2010
This past fall I entered into the world of a smart phone user. I picked up an iPhone 4. Mostly because I get a good deal through my place of employment. Otherwise it would have been an expense I could live without. For the first little bit I was using it as an iPod for music and as one of those ebook readers for my books. This really isn’t the most productive use of the phone.
I am guilty from time to time of missing a credit card payment. It happens. You get the email or the snail mail and you forget about it. I hate paying interest and so should you. I haven’t paid a cent since I got my phone thanks to the world of banking apps. I downloaded my banks free app from the itunes store, set up my account and set up my monthly bills for credit cards and other payments such as cable or hydro.
Now everytime a bill comes in the mail, I grab my phone, load the app and make the payment over the phone and post date it to the date that it is due on. It is
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