The actions need to try to stabilize the European debt crisis are well recognized. But Even if measures could be implemented as soon as possible, success is not assured. However without them, the chance of a disorderly collapse is increasingly significant.
February 8th, 2012 | The Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "European Union"
The War Against the Euro
The Americans are trying to discredit the euro in order to perpetuate dollar hegemony, so goes the argument. Hmm. It’s possible. It’s also possible that all central bankers and monetary policy makers are singing from the same hymnal. Their answer to the end of the credit bubble is to try and pump it back up with currency debasement. In that case, this is a war of all against all.
January 18th, 2012 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
European Downgrades: Will There Really Be a Fallout?
On Friday, after the close of business in the stock market, S&P downgraded 9 European countries. Spain and Italy were both taken down another notch, leaving Italy with a BBB+ rating and Spain with an A. But the headline damage was done to France, whose triple-A rating got downgraded to AA+.
January 17th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Downgrade of European Financial Stability Facility Becomes a Reality
“It won’t be long before the EFSF has its own credit rating cut,” we wrote yesterday. And it wasn’t! Standard and Poor’s delivered the coup de grace yesterday. It downgraded the European Financial Stability Facility from AAA to AA+.
January 17th, 2012 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Don’t Invest in Europe’s Debt
On December 5th 2011, S&P warned the Europeans to get their divided house in order. Almost nothing constructive or helpful to solve Europe’s debt problem has happened since then. On Friday the 13th January 2012, Standard and Poor’s cut the credit ratings of nine European countries. S&P’s biggest scalp was France.
January 16th, 2012 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
Europe’s Flawed Financial Transactions Tax (FTT)
Europe’s Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) may disincentivise financial transactions by adding to their marginal cost. But as long as the supply of credit and cheap money to the banking system remains abundant, the banks have an open invitation to speculate.
January 10th, 2012 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
6 Things Governments Might Do To You This Christmas
The break over Christmas is a pretty convenient time for politicians to spring something unexpected on you. Well, unexpected for those who don’t read the Daily Reckoning, that is.
So here is a list of things the governments of the world might unleash on you and your portfolio over the holidays:
December 24th, 2011 | Nickolai Hubble | 7 comments | Continued
Nero, Bonaparte and Hitler Walk Into an Economic Union
The latest news out of Europe is that British Prime Minister Churchill Cameron refused to surrender sovereignty to the rest of the EU. Those on the continent have tied themselves to the Euro like tree huggers saving the forest.
Changing Views on the World of Economic Growth and Recovery
What’s new in the world of economic growth and recovery?
When we signed off last week, the Germans and the French were trying to hold Europe together. This morning, they are still trying.
December 13th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Why Everyday Europeans Are Bailing Out of Their Own Banks
Europe is begging for money but claiming it has plenty. Meanwhile, ordinary Europeans are voting with their feet and taking their money out of banks and up north, while they still can. An economic system based on command and coercion is collapsing. And meanwhile, stock markets and investors trundle along in an information-soaked stupor.
December 7th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
How Long Can Europe Stay Positive on Creditwatch Negative?
If you believe the French and Germans, what Europe really needs to become more competitive is a new treaty. If you believe Standard and Poor’s, which just put most of Europe on “creditwatch negative”, Europe needs to sort out its underlying monetary problems before it’s too late. Who are you going to believe?
December 6th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
Are You Ready For The Savings Destruction of the US and Europe?
Here’s our old friend Frank Giustra, writing in the Vancouver Sun about the savings destruction of US and Europe
December 6th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Markets at Work Discovering Worth
The markets continue trying to discover what things are worth. With so many things in motion, so much fog and so much doubt, they’re having a hard time.
November 4th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
The Deeper the Greek are in Debt
“Hooray” for democracy.
From out of the blue, Greek president George Papandreou has called a referendum on the Greek debt situation and whether Greece should accept the terms of the financial and political surrender imposed on it by the “Troika” of interventionists from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Union (EU), and the European Central Bank (ECB).
November 2nd, 2011 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
European Monetary Union Members Cannot Print Money to Inflate Way Out of Crisis
Europe’s monetary failure is bringing about a fiscal crisis, and probably a social crisis too. The Euro not only made 10-month lows against the dollar. But the viability of the common currency (one interest rate, many fiscal policies) is now being openly questioned.
March 25th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 38 comments | Continued
