Talk:PIGS (economics)

Neutrality

The neutrality of this article is contested. The article should not include pejorative innuendo about the reasons why journalists use the term. It should not include words like "aryan" or "racist" to qualify a group of people that coined/use the expression (an acronym!!!). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hibasameen (talk • contribs) 16:26, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

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Spain has had a Budget Surplus during the last years and right now the Public Debt is just 37% of GDP while Britain has a Public Debt of 47% of GDP, Germany and the US a Public Debt of 67% of GDP...so Spain´s fiscal discipline has been demonstrated when others failed.

And about current account, Italy´s current account deficit is much smaller than the US or the UK.

Anyway, being part of the Eurozone, there is not a "national" current account deficit as can be applied to Britain because the whole Eurozone has a current account surplus.

Add that Spain and Greece have been two of the nations with higher income and GDP growth of all Europe, more than the UK and much more than Germany. Spain´s average GDP during the last ten years reached 3,7%, more than the US´s 3,6% and average growth of Spain´s income per head has been higher than the American...

== FREEDOM FOR INSULTING? ==

This article is offensive and does not provide any useful information, except the acronym and somebody's stupid joke. What if someone wrote something like Jews were called by Nazis PIGS? Would that be a constructive information? Please DELETE this page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.124.67.153 (talk) 00:10, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

A quick search [1] suggests the term is used by journalists in notable publications. It is irrelevant whether the term is used to imply negative things about the countries included, even if you prove 100% that they are untrue (which would be original research). Adding context/criticism of the term and how it is used from a notable source would be beneficial of course. --86.142.97.137 (talk) 13:30, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Will anyone write an article about the economy of the SWINES too? SWINES = Scottish, Welsh, Irish (North), English Scum

hell yeah i find a pattern somewhere i erased a dumbass link ... please do not ban my ip. and yeah pigs come on... let us have invent another acronym like the fuks france united kingdom swizterland or finland uganda cape verte kenya sweden. and find a linkage in between.. havah agilah Salaam Aleikum —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.84.119.76 (talk) 04:37, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

PIIGS usage has resurged, entry needs to be updated

417 hits in news.google.com on 5 February 2010. Don't know entry evolution rules, but PIIGS is most common usage now; does entry get shifted over to new PIIGS wiki entry instead of being "Redirected from PIIGS"? Does another entry get created? Reference to "used mostly in 2008" should be struck since word is in common usage now once again. See large quantity of news regarding Greek debt, government wage cuts, strikes, money printing, hidden/secret debt (whether true or not), etc. Contrary to the contention in the article, Ireland's economy is weaker than Italy's and while both could be included in PIIGS, most knowledgeable with international economies would never replace Ireland with Italy. Whether it is offensive or not, it is now in common usage by the financial media and thus should NOT be struck from wikipedia. However, the entry needs to be refined, added to, etc.Rockshop (talk) 03:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC)rockshop, 5 February 2010

this is a racist/nationalist acronym by british nationalist extremists

it's so obvious; the hate the euro, the hate the european union, now the regressed to this low level of pathetic attacks; calling whole countries PIGS? really? pathetic. get some sources to support it cause it's so obvious. --212.54.217.107 (talk) 04:15, 11 February 2010 (UTC)