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What the Bond Markets Are Finally Saying About Italy

Interest-Rates / Italy Jun 05, 2018 - 12:16 PM GMT

By: Harry_Dent

Interest-Rates Over the years I’ve spent much time talking about Italy as the next ticking time bomb for Europe and the global banking system.

It’s government debt is the third highest in the world at 132% of GDP, coming only after Japan and Greece.

Its private debt is 23% of the Eurozone versus Greece’s 3%.


But here’s the bigger issue: Italy’s bad loans are 40% of the Eurozone.

Just one country comprises 40%… That’s crazy!

So, you can see how the euro and Eurozone can’t afford to bail out Italy. This has been obvious from the beginning. We’ve been saying so for years.

Italy’s already bankrupt. It’s just that no one has announced it yet.

Its banks keep propping up zombie companies with just enough credit for them to meet their debt obligations.

In other words: lend them just enough to pay you back and stay current on their debt obligations, but not enough to grow or get into more trouble.

It’s a form of denial. Nothing more than false hope that the economy will magically get better down the road.

The paradox in Italy is that the banks can’t get healthier without economic growth… and the economy can’t grow without healthy banks to lend money.

Now that the government’s divided, and the rising populist parties are calling for higher spending and even breaking away from the euro, the stock market and Italy’s bond market are falling.

The markets are finally starting to get serious about Italy and the imbalances in the entire euro system. Only Mario Draghi’s incessant stimulus, years after the U.S. tapered, has kept Italy’s 10-year bonds well below the much more solvent U.S. Treasurys. (We aren’t pretty either, just the best house in a bad neighborhood.)

Personally, I think it’s about time.

Italy’s yields spiked strongly on Tuesday, up to as high as 3.18%, while the U.S. 10-year fell sharply, down to as low as 2.97% from recent highs of 3.11%. But, more importantly, look at the most recent massive spike in Italy’s yields…

Italy’s bad debts had climbed to 14% of loans as of 2014, and now they are near 20%. Meanwhile, 10% is technically bankrupt…

Italy is the next Greece, and it’s too big to fail or bail out. Within the next six to 18 months the euro and Eurozone will be imploding in some fashion: one of many coming to the global economy.

And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of central bankers!

Harry

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Harry studied economics in college in the ’70s, but found it vague and inconclusive. He became so disillusioned by the state of the profession that he turned his back on it. Instead, he threw himself into the burgeoning New Science of Finance, which married economic research and market research and encompassed identifying and studying demographic trends, business cycles, consumers’ purchasing power and many, many other trends that empowered him to forecast economic and market changes.

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