Quote from: stompix on August 08, 2022, 10:12:32 AM

Not isolated data, overall data!
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spain-edges-closer-pre-pandemic-tourism-levels-with-75-mln-visitors-june-2022-08-02/

Covers everything you have tried to deny as an indicator, from the amount of spending money per person increasing to overall numbers of occupancy. Next? Don't you see that you want everything to be bleak as you are trying to find fault in everything good?
Do you see how you dismissed my claim about tourism without bothering to check the numbers or anything else and then you claim you don't trust things, how can you be so bent on not trusting things others say when you don't verify your own beliefs?

Hey man, have you read the article? Yeah, increasing numbers of occupancy compared to the 2020 and 2021. And yet:

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Spain's government expects tourist arrivals to reach 90% of pre-pandemic volumes during the summer season,

So you call data to rely on the forecasts of the Spanish government, which is widely known for its predictive reliability in economic matters. Is that it? LMAO.

So you can see it as the government sees it or you can see it as we have 10% less tourism, than pre-covid.

Quote from: stompix on August 08, 2022, 10:12:32 AM

I've already told you I'm not looking at the unemployment rate that can be manipulated in one hundred ways.
What I'm looking is the employment rate which simply means one thing, people who work versus all of the population capable of working.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Employment_-_annual_statistics

Yes, this indicator is more reliable than the one usually used in Spain, which is the unemployment figure.

If you mean that the situation is not catastrophic as you said before, we agree on that.

Do you see the future looking very bright with rising energy costs and the regulatory tangle in Europe?

Have you seen the evolution of the Euro Stoxx 50 versus the S&P 500 over the last 20 years? Do you think the next 20 years will be better for us?

Although after the last bill passed by the US Senate, I don't see much stimulation of economic activity there, although maybe that's what the planet needs:

US Senate approves Biden’s climate and tax bill: ‘This is going to change America for decades’