EU - A Flawed Foundation, But Brilliant Strategy?

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-eu-flawed-foundation-brilliant-strategy

The essence of Mercantile Colonialism is to create a need for debt, then finance that debt and eventually exchange that debt for the collateral assets that are the underlying wealth producing assets.

In the Austrian School of Economics, this exchange of printed paper for real assets, is called the Indirect Exchange.  It is well understood and well documented but like usury is avoided in polite conversation. Eventually the colonies worked as slaves to pay the debt to their European masters.

Gold is the Money of Kings, Silver the Money of Merchants and Debt the Money of Slaves

The European banks are slowly but surely, through a tactic of Financial Arbitrage, moving more and more sovereign debt to the ECB and EU. Someone must pay for this debt and that will eventually be the entire European taxpayer base. That is the goal.