Germans Citizens Make Another Contribution To Eurozone

German taxpayers have already given a great deal to their Eurozone partners by funding $50 billion of the region’s nearly $1 trillion financial security package. The massive rescue facility has not calmed doubts about the future of the euro, which…

Published June 7, 2010, 1:52pm ET · 1 min read

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German taxpayers have already given a great deal to their Eurozone partners by funding $50 billion of the region’s nearly $1 trillion financial security package. The massive rescue facility has not calmed doubts about the future of the euro, which has traded below $1.20.

The Germans will now try to teach the other, less financially well-off governments in the region how austerity is done. The German cabinet has approved a package of over $13 billion in budget cuts for 2011. The Germans, as a matter of course, do not spend most of their time at the beach while the government pays their jobless claims and medical costs the way that people in Greece and Spain do.

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Douglas A. McIntyre

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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