A lot of misinformation about Sweden in /pol/
We are often told here that their economy is going down the toilet these past five years. I looked around and didn't find anything reliable that support that claim. Instead this is what I found (pic related). I see nothing going wrong in these numbers. Their GDP is more or less stable and I see the unemployment rate actually decreasing over the years.
Source: http://www.focus-economics.com/countries/sweden
Look, I am a staunch reactionary and I think that multiculturalism is the worst thing that happened to humanity in the modern times. But this kind of misinformation destroys the credibility of people who ascribe to such views. So please, verify any claims before you start using them.
>>55494813
When people talk about economic strength they are talking about the future prospects of the country. GDP and most measures on the chart are not indicative of the future. I've highlighted the measures that reflect a substantial weakening in the economy that should not occur when times are good.
Happy to answer questions for you, econ grad here.
>>55494813
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>>55495386
lol this
If you look at BNP per capita it has gone down, the single reason for this: immigration.
Only a retard would look at the total BNP and say it grown. Congratulations OP, you are as retarded as most journalist.
>>55494813
50% of migs still have not had a single job by the time they've been here for 7 years. An unemployed mig has an expected lifetime cost of 14 million SEK. Totally ignoring the costs of the remaining half, the 100,000 migs we've taken on this year who will not find employment will cost us 1.4 trillion SEK, or 1/3.5 of our total GDP.
We're going down, and going down fast.
>>55495386
The loan of 3.1 billion is ONLY for the immigration service. They don't pay shit after they've dumped the migs on a municipality, which ends up paying for them in the end.
The cost is not just the 7 billion Euro the immigration service wants to shell out this year.
>>55494813
Did you see the public debt (% of GDP) rise? The problem isn't that the economy itself is currently tanking, it's that public spending is doomed to increase forever. 85% of Swedes are employed. Only 50% of immigrants and those jobs have low wages and generate little tax income. Meanwhile they're all entitled to full socialist benefits. When the ratio of immigrant to Swede keeps rising so will welfare costs until we can't afford to borrow any more and everything breaks down. The large chunk of society that depends on welfare will be cut off and race riots will ensue.
>>55494813
Sweden is not as bad as you may think after lurkng /pol/. However, it is getting worse.
Mostly because majority of Swedes are abso-fucking-lutely retarded, they wish to help immigrants, even though this is going to harm their own country.
This is just like cutting your own veins because you wish to help a sick friend.
We are not able to take in immigrants simply because Swedish integration politics never worked.
And now, we wish to test our luck by letting thousands of young adults into our country and then doing nothing, because we will be unable to integrate them.
What happens in the next 5 years then?
Crime, welfare cuts and a loot of poor, angry people.
>>55494813
It easy to say that the gpd goes up but what matters here is that the gdp per capita is going down.
In other words its getting worse to live here for the average swede.
>>55494813
>We are often told here that their economy is going down the toilet these past five years.
It is, but not as stated on /pol/.
We have a bigger housing bubble than the US had, and it never popped, it just keeps growing. Now we added refugees which has the housing market busting at the seams.
But the health of the economy is bad. Despite doing well, our idiot government decided to push interest rates down so much they're LITERALLY NEGATIVE right now. They're forcing capital out of holdings out on the speculative markets, just exacerbating the bubble. They're letting any idiot borrow at close to 0% interest from banks.
This in turn is swelling the housing bubble like an infected ball of pus.
Once this house of card goes, we're looking at a lost decade worse than our crisis in the 90s.
