Talk:Spain

POV edit by User:James Bond 000

I reverted[1] a recent edit by the above user as they did not adhere to a neutral point of view and also introduced grammatical errors. Jezhotwells (talk)

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Kingdoms of Spain

The unification of the crowns of Aragon and Castile by the marriage of their sovereigns laid the basis for modern Spain and the Spanish Empire, although each kingdoms of Spain remain as separate countries, in social, political, laws, currency and language. --Santos30 (talk) 09:49, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

• "Imperial Spain". University of Calgary.
• Handbook of European History

The text says "the kingdoms of Navarre, Aragón and Catalonia", but in fact Catalonia was not a kingdom. It was (and still is named) a principality. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.184.179.66 (talk) 19:38, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Catalonia is not a Kingdom, Catalonia is a part of the kingdom of Aragon

Economy.

The economy of a country can be measured by different criteria. GDP is important, but disposable wages is also very important. Spain has higher disposable wages than countries like Germany, Belgium or Finland, in spite of the crisis. This is to the surprise of many. It should be included in the article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage

Pointless hair splitting. GDP per capita is the most important measure along with human development and life expectancy at birth. If we started using all the possible ways of looking at an economy, where would it end? This is a general encyclopaedia, not an economic journal. The Scandanavian countries have very high taxes which reduces their disposable income but then they also have a much more complete social security system to pay for and they consider this beneficial. Besides, it would be a sarcastic joke given that a quarter of the Spanish workforce is unemployed in the current economic crisis and has very little disposable income to speak of. Provocateur (talk) 07:26, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

This part:

The 2008/2009 credit crunch and world recession manifested itself in Spain through a massive downturn in the property sector. Fortunately, Spain's banks and financial services avoided the more severe problems of their counterparts in the USA and UK, due mainly to a stringently enforced conservative financial regulatory regime. The Spanish financial authorities had not forgotten the country's own banking crisis of 1979 and an earlier real-estate-precipitated banking crisis of 1993. Indeed, Spain's largest bank, Banco Santander, participated in the UK government's bail-out of part of the UK banking sector.

Seriously? Ever heard of the Bankia bailout?

Spain is in a serious crisis, but here is some optimism among the turnmoil:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUFMxmIoFRc&list=FLQOMPFUSj5Xq5zLxG8AQ_xw&inde — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.109.203.72 (talk) 00:38, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 3 November 2012

This part:

The 2008/2009 credit crunch and world recession manifested itself in Spain through a massive downturn in the property sector. Fortunately, Spain's banks and financial services avoided the more severe problems of their counterparts in the USA and UK, due mainly to a stringently enforced conservative financial regulatory regime. The Spanish financial authorities had not forgotten the country's own banking crisis of 1979 and an earlier real-estate-precipitated banking crisis of 1993. Indeed, Spain's largest bank, Banco Santander, participated in the UK government's bail-out of part of the UK banking sector.

Seriously? Ever heard of the Bankia bailout? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankia)

24.6.6.14 (talk) 06:32, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

 Not done. Format request correctly, and add reliable sources for your change (not Wikipedia articles). gwickwire | Leave a message 19:19, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Yes but that section is badly out of date and still needs to be updated with a reference to the deteriorating situation of the "cajas", the creation and problems of Bankia, the 100 billion euro bank bailout and how this is placing stress on public funds.