Category: Global Debt Crisis
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Drowning in Debt Developed Economies Between Rock and a Hard Place / Economics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Puru_Saxena
The developed nations are over-extended, their debt levels are ballooning and their governments are creating copious amounts of money. Put simply, most industrialised nations are now caught between a rock and a hard place.
After years of excesses, the developed world is slowly beginning to realise that you cannot continue to live beyond your means and spend your way to prosperity.
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
E.U. Greece Rescue Plan Fails, Back to Square One / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Mike_Shedlock
Europe's rescue plan for Greece is now back at square one. The reason the plan failed is there never really was a plan to begin with, just bazooka talk.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Global Sovereign Debt Crisis, Country Bankruptcy Relative Risk of Default / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis
By: Nadeem_Walayat
All countries are on the path towards bankruptcy, to measure where a country stands along this path it is critical to look beyond official statistics that focus primarily on public sector net debt and the annual budget deficit in terms of % of GDP.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
What Does the Greek Debt Crisis Mean For Your? / Economics / Global Debt Crisis
By: John_Mauldin
What Does Greece Mean to Me, Dad?
Dear Kids,
Ubiquity, Complexity Theory, and Sandpiles
Fingers of Instability
"To trace something unknown back to something known is alleviating, soothing, gratifying and gives moreover a feeling of power. Danger, disquiet, anxiety attend the unknown - the first instinct is to eliminate these distressing states. First principle: any explanation is better than none... The cause-creating drive is thus conditioned and excited by the feeling of fear..." Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Greece Debt Crisis To Trigger Financial Tsunami across Europe / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Pravda
The summit of the European Union continued on March 26 in Brussels. The most important issue on the agenda of the summit is the crisis in Greece. The biggest intrigue of the meeting is about the stance of the EU’s largest country – Germany – which is supposed to carry most of the burden of help to the country that faces the danger of default. German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated earlier that Greece was not supposed to receive any international help. She reportedly did not even want to discuss this issue in Brussels.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Is the IMF to Greece what China is to the U.S.? / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis
By: Axel_Merk
If Greece eventually gets funding from the International Monetary Fund (“IMF”), it may not be so different from the U.S. getting its funding from China. There are two main fears in the eurzone against IMF involvement: a perception that Europe can’t solve its problems internally; and the potential influence of the IMF on European policies.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Divisions Between the US and Europe Widen Over Greek Financial Bailout / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Global_Research
Stefan Steinberg writes: The Greek government is preparing to turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for financial help in the next few weeks to avert a default on its national debt. The move to engage the IMF follows the failure of European finance ministers meeting in Brussels earlier this week to agree on any concrete plan to provide financial backing for Greece. The principal obstacle at the Brussels meeting was the hard line taken by Germany.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
New Baghdad and the Collapse of Capitalism / Economics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Casey_Research
Doug Hornig, Casey Research writes: Forty years ago, it was a small town on the Persian Gulf, merely one of seven sheikdoms joined in federation in 1971 to create the United Arab Emirates. Basically, there was nothing there but sand. Yes, oil had been discovered under that sand, and the city/state was enjoying its first economic boomlet. From about 60,000 in 1968, population tripled by 1975, doubled in the next ten years, and nearly doubled again by 1995.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Euro Debt Crisis, Latvia and the PIGS / Economics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Eric_Walberg
Down on the Euro Animal Farm, some animals are more equal than others.
Two million people took to the streets of Athens last week in the country's second general strike this month, protesting the austerity measures proposed by their socialist government. All of Greece came to a 24-hour standstill and the airport was closed as a result of the action. The only public transport was the commuter train so that protesters could reach the demonstration.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Greek Bailout Arrives with Bells On / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Trader_Mark
US banks, Fannie, Freddie, AIG, Dubai, Greece... let us keep this moral hazard party going. It's official.
If you are following along at home...
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Investor Opportunities to Profitably Escape Fiat Currency Paper "Wealth" in 2010 / Stock-Markets / Global Debt Crisis
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“Greece is only the latest in a series of countries that have faced this type of crisis in recent memory. Not too long ago the same types of fears were mounting about Dubai, and before that, Iceland. Several other countries (Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Latvia) are approaching crisis levels with public debt as well. Many have strong ties to Goldman Sachs, and the case could easily be made that default could have serious implications for big US banking cartels.
Friday, March 12, 2010
European Debt Crisis Politicians Blaming the Short Selling Messengers / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Mike_Larson
Okay, stop me if you’ve heard this one …
You have an entity that took on too much debt. It cooked its books. It failed to get its fiscal house in order. Its “executives” repeatedly refused to take the necessary steps to rein in risk.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Doug Casey on How to Survive the Financial Apocalypse / Stock-Markets / Global Debt Crisis
By: Casey_Research
(Conversations with Casey: Interviewed by Louis James, Editor, International Speculator)
L: Doug, last time we spoke, you said quite a bit about debt, in the context of your expectation that the euro is on its way out. At the end of that conversation, you mentioned, of course, that the problem is not limited to Greece, nor the eurozone. America as a country has become a world-class debtor, and many Americans seem to think a maxed-out credit card is a reason to get a higher credit limit, not to economize. It's like a global epidemic. Let's talk about debt.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
European Debt Crisis Bailout Fund Proposal … Just Another Bad Idea / Economics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Has bailout mania finally reached Europe?
The 16 nations that make up the Eurozone are seriously exploring the creation of a "European Monetary Fund," a bailout fund that would help euro-member countries that can't pay their debts.
Monday, March 08, 2010
The Global Debt Crisis / Economics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Marius_Gustavson
With all the attention being focused on whether or not there will be a sustainable recovery in 2010, the potential for a wave of sovereign-debt crises following the wake of the global recession has just recently started to appear on people's radar screens. Yet, such a wave should not be surprising.
Monday, March 08, 2010
Papandreou, Sarkozy, Merkel Blame Speculators, Sarkozy Says E.U. Must Support Greece or Risk Destroying Euro / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Mike_Shedlock
When all else fails blame the speculators and the shorts. That is the action the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel took today.
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Sovereign Debt and the Economic Crisis, When Countries are Bankrupt... / Economics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Bob_Chapman
Sovereign debt hangs like an albatross around the necks of too many countries. There are 17 medium-size to large countries that are close to, or are bankrupt. Many are being kept solvent by using two sets of books and by marking to model. As you know we expect these bankruptcies to take place by the end of 2011. That will be accomplished at meetings such as we saw in the 1970s at the Smithsonian, the Plaza Accord of 1985 and the Louvre Accord of 1987. There will be a realignment of currencies.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
The Fall of Greece, Is it a Capitalist Plot? / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Global_Research
Diana Johnstone writes: For Europe’s poorest countries, European Union membership has long held out the promise of tranquil prosperity. The current Greek financial crisis ought to dispel some of their illusions.
There are two strikingly significant levels to the current crisis. While primarily economic, the European Economic Community also claims to be a community, based on solidarity -- the sisterhood of nations and brotherhood of peoples. However, the economic deficit is nothing compared to the human deficit it exposes.
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Thursday, March 04, 2010
The Debt Default Dominos / Economics / Global Debt Crisis
By: John_Browne
The bad news for Greece is that despite some help from abroad, and some attempts at internal reform, investors are still leery of the troubled state. The good news, if you can call it that, is that they will soon have company in the penalty box.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Vulture Funds Preying on African Debt Video / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Submissions
In Britain, lawmakers have voted in favor of a bill to restrict so-called vulture funds—that is, financiers that buy up poor country debts cheaply and then sue for massive profits. The Debt Relief Bill would pave the way for banning private investors from pursuing the world’s poorest countries for debts in British courts.