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Indeed. I would say, unemployment is generally the number one economic problem.
…and an easily solvable one, IF European countries take back their monetary sovereignty:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Cure-for-Europe-A-Pub-by-Scott-Baker-121117-25.html
or, we could wait until even the police start protesting austerity. Wait, that just happened:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Thousands-of-Spanish-polic-by-Scott-Baker-121118-259.html