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: "Greece"
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
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
In the Name of Debt
It should be obvious that the Greeks owe too much. But so does almost everyone. Every kind of debt is so heroic it poses an affront to nature and a challenge to the gods. Much of it is unpayable. Private debt. Public debt. Short term. Long term. US. England. Europe. All kinds of debt in all kinds of places. In America’s private sector, for example, debt exploded 6 times faster than GDP since 1950.
July 5th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 21 comments | Continued
G20 Meddlers At It Again
And even this modest goal presumes that economies are able to grow faster than their debt – in real terms. When you get debt equal to 100% of GDP, you’re over a barrel. If interest rates were to return to the double digit levels of the ’70s, it could cost more than 10% of GDP just to pay the interest.
June 30th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Even Taxes are Pretty in Pink
Forcing the more productive, intelligent and resourceful people in the economy to bear the weight of those who should be going out of business is just stupid. That hasn’t stopped countries from trying it. But the IMF points out that most countries abandon it. And what would happen to government revenue when the economy slows?
June 26th, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 11 comments | Continued
Taming the Vigilant
Free markets! It’s a government institution – the U.S. Federal Reserve – that is providing the liquidity, via low interest rates and outright buying of government securities, to keep bond yields low. That’s the opposite of free markets.
June 21st, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 1 comment | Continued
Europe, Greece and a French Blonde
We see it coming too. We’ve already seen what happens when a small country runs up too much debt. Investors get worried. Interest rates rise. The country can no longer borrow to cover its deficits…or to pay its past loans. Disaster.
May 14th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Bailout Shmailout
One day the world is convinced that the central bankers and financial meddlers of Europe have the secret to success. The next day, they change their minds. Turns out, the euro feds don’t seem to have the problem solved after all. The euro is going down again.
May 13th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Money for Nothing
The question begging itself here, of course, is how Europe intends to come up with roughly a trillion in bailout money. Sell Portugal to China? Cut Greece up into bait and catch whatever fish are left in the Mediterranean Sea? Frankly, I’m stumped. Talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul…
May 12th, 2010 | James Howard Kunstler | 16 comments | Continued
Say You Want a Revolution?
Greek communists are usually a reliable bastion of error and darkness. Their ideas are appalling. Their proposals are absurd. The only thing they are not wrong about is their opinion of the ruling classes – whom they regard as morons
May 10th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Default Threat Rises
Let’s pause for a moment to reconsider what may have happened last week with Wall Street’s “trading glitch.” Is it possible that traders saw the cops beating protestors in the Streets and surmised this: No matter what deal European leaders come up with to bailout Greece, that deal isn’t going to fly on the streets of Athens.
May 10th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 13 comments | Continued
Chaos No Longer a Theory
A German reporter with a very poor, or very excellent, sense of humour has been handing out the old Greek currency (Drachma) to Greeks on the streets of Athens, just to record their reaction. He obviously didn’t expect to get the worthless paper torn from his hands – literally.
May 8th, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 0 comments | Continued
The Achillies Heal of Financial Markets
It looks to us as though the stock market is finally rolling over…it’s finally putting in a big top after a long, long bounce. But it could be just another temporary setback. We won’t know for a while. In the meantime, readers are advised to floss their teeth and stay out of stocks. The bounce may or may not be over. It hardly matters.
May 7th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
The Lies That Bind…
This is supposed to be a recovery. Everyone thinks it’s a recovery. All the papers say so. Investors are betting on it. Politicians and economists are congratulating themselves for it. The only trouble is, the things that need to recover so that there can be a genuine recovery are not recovering.
May 5th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
