Category: Global Debt Crisis
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Europe and America and the The Global Debt Crisis / Economics / Global Debt Crisis
By: LEAP
On December 15, 2010, in the GEAB N°50, LEAP/E2020 anticipated the explosion of Western government debt (1) in the second half of 2011. We were then describing a process that would start with the European government debt crisis and then set fire to the heart of the global financial system, namely US federal debt (2). And here we are with this issue at the start of the second half of 2011, with a global economy in complete disarray (3), an increasingly unstable global monetary system (4) and financial centres in desperate straits (5), all this despite the thousands of billions of public money invested to avoid precisely this type of situation. The insolvency of the global financial system, and of the Western financial system in the first place, returns again to the front of the stage after just over a year of political cosmetics aimed at burying this fundamental problem under truckloads of cash.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
California is the Greece of America, Time to Cut Off the Money / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Bill_Bonner
Oh my, oh my…this is getting interesting…
“How zombie consumers menace the world economy,” is a headline from Yale Professor Stephen Roach. Mr. Roach is misusing the word “zombie,” but he’s coming closer to understanding what is really going on.
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
How to Protect Yourself From the Debt Crisis Second Recession / Economics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Videos
Jim Rogers On The Ratigan Show, Tells Viewers To Get Ready To Protect Themselves.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
U.S. Economic Contraction And The Pending Greek Debt Default / Economics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Tony_Pallotta
This week saw further confirmation of a deteriorating US economy as both the Empire State and Philly Fed surveys continued their reversals and showed outright contraction. What was viewed by many as a soft patch indeed is much deeper.
Additionally retail sales contracted showing the consumer to be weaker than economists and markets had predicted. Of the four GDP components the consumer was the only one showing strength yet as witnessed by the Q1 GDP revision they in fact are not strong.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
The Solution to Greece’s Sovereign Debt Crisis / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Mike_Stathis
In the very first issue of the Intelligent Investor (June 2009), I discussed problems in Europe that became a reality several months later.
“It is likely that America will end up on the hook for the majority of the bailout funds needed for Eastern Europe via the IMF…In the end, I feel the long-term fate of the European Union (EU) will be threatened; not so much for economic reasons as for the continued destruction of each nation’s sovereignty.
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
IMF Uses Useless Logic in Throwing More Money at Bankrupt Greece / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis
By: Mike_Shedlock
Inquiring minds are making note of the current state of affairs in Greece. Here is a quick 10-point synopsis.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Germany Fires Debt Shot at U.S. / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
In what will likely be the first of many European debt downgrades for the United States, Germany’s own Feri credit rating agency took down the United States’ debt rating from AAA to AA. The difference is marginal in many ways (after all, few countries ever get to become AAA rated), but for the United States, which has always been AAA, this confirms that the downside is here.
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Greece Debt Crisis Risks Bringing Government Down / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Mike_Shedlock
The crisis in Greece took another step forward today as opposition leader have asked Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou to step down.
In response, Papandreou offered to resign. Unfortunately, Papandreou placed strings on the offer.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Ireland Learning Lessons from Iceland, Seeks Haircuts on Irish Bonds / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis
By: Mike_Shedlock
Irish finance minister Michael Noonan is one confused soul. Let's compare his position yesterday to his position today.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Time to Get Outraged by the Banks, Is It Time to Buy a House? / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis
By: John_Mauldin
This week we look at data from the Bank of International Settlements, by which (if someone does a lot of work) you can figure out how much US banks have written in credit default swaps to banks in Europe on Greek, Irish, and Portuguese debt. The details should not make you happy. I meditate on whether one should buy a house now, and then discuss "the way out" of all this mess and why we will Muddle Through. Oh, and I'll ask you for help on yet another book project, on creating jobs. And all while trying to finish early enough to go to dinner. So let's get started.
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Greece Economic Reforms at a Standstill, Deficit is Widening, Bailout Payments on Hold / Economics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Mike_Shedlock
On May 28 Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou went into a temper tantrum over an article in Der Spiegel that stated Greece missed its financial targets.
Papaconstantinou noted the report was not even out yet adding, "I have every reason to believe they will end positively for our country and that we will receive the fifth tranche."
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
The Global Debt Crisis, How We Got In It, and How to Get Out / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis
By: Ellen_Brown
Countries everywhere are facing debt crises today, precipitated by the credit collapse of 2008. Public services are being slashed and public assets are being sold off, in a futile attempt to balance budgets that can’t be balanced because the money supply itself has shrunk. Governments usually get the blame for excessive spending, but governments did not initiate the crisis. The collapse was in the banking system, and in the credit that it is responsible for creating and sustaining.
Sunday, June 05, 2011
IMF Prepares to Eat Belarus Alive / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis
By: Pravda
The government of Belarus applied to the International Monetary Fund for a stabilization loan. The work of the IMF mission will last during June 1-14. Belarus is not ready either for large-scale liberalization in the currency sphere, or for a considerable reduction of state spending.
Those were the requirements, which the IMF previously set forth as a condition to give a loan to Belarus. The National Bank of Belarus raised the refinancing rate by tow percentage points - up to 16% per annum. The bank has thus met one of the requirements of the international financial organization.
Saturday, June 04, 2011
If Soros Can Bust BoE, Greece Can Bankrupt ECB / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis
By: Andrew_Butter
US And EU Debt Crises Compared - The recent events in Greece are reminiscent of when Soros “busted” the Bank of England. That crisis was caused by an artificial peg of the Pound to the Euro which restricted the ability of UK to print money to inflate away their debts. The current crisis is caused by the inability Greece (and Ireland, and Portugal, and Spain, and perhaps Italy), to print and inflate away their sovereign debt, since it is denominated in Euros.
Saturday, June 04, 2011
Economic Whiplash, Eurozone Debt Crisis Intolerable Choices, U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls Worse Than Headlines / Economics / Global Debt Crisis
By: John_Mauldin
Do you feel as if you are suffering from some sort of economic whiplash? Between focusing on the European crisis (and it is a crisis), then looking at softening data in the US and political turmoil in Japan, not to mention the Middle East, you can be forgiven for feeling like someone just slammed into the back of your "economic recovery car." This week we look at today's US employment numbers, then at a troubling slowing of economic velocity, precisely at a time when it should be rising, and then consider a powerhouse, must-be-read-twice commentary from Martin Wolf on the European situation. Then I will weigh in with some of my own thoughts. Counterintuitively, the holders of certain European debt are being put at further risk by the bailout. (This letter may be a little shorter and take more work than others -which some of you think will improve it - as I am suffering from Caesar's Revenge here in Tuscany, although I am getting better!)
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Why Greece Debt Default Could be Worse than the Lehman Collapse / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
The 2008 collapse of Lehman Bros Holdings Inc. (PINK: LEHMQ) ignited a financial meltdown that resulted in widespread bank failures and caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average to lose 18% of its value in just one week.
Yet a Greek default - which (even with a bailout) becomes increasingly likely with each passing day - would actually be much, much worse in many respects.
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Euro Debt Crisis, Greece, Portugal, Spain Debts Are Unpayable / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis
By: Bob_Chapman
We hope all of our appearances on Greek TV, radio and in the press have helped the educational process and to allow the Greeks to identify who the real culprits are, and what to do about it. It has just been over a year since this tragedy became reality, but we reported on Greece and Italy ten years ago. They both bent the rules to enter the euro zone. We knew then that Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase were assisting them by creating credit default swaps. There were a few European journalist who reported on the issue, but the elitists control the media and few noticed that Greece and Italy were beyond bogus.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Japan Shows How to Defuse Debt Time Bomb / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis
By: Ellen_Brown
[T]hreatening to default should not be a partisan issue. In view of all the hazards it entails, one wonders why any responsible person would even flirt with the idea. - Alan S. Blinder, Princeton professor of economics, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve
A game of Russian roulette is being played with the national debt ceiling. Fire the wrong chamber of the gun, and the result could be the second Great Depression.
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Monday, May 23, 2011
How China Stiffs Its Creditors, Debt Default / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis
By: Ian_Fletcher
I examined in a previous article the ethical case for America repudiating its financial obligations to China. While considering this tempting possibility—which makes for a better bargaining position if nothing else—we should recall the fact that China has, in fact, repudiated its own financial obligations to other nations. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, May 16, 2011
Tortured Greece is Bankrupt / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis
By: Mike_Shedlock
The editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt, a leading German business newspaper, published a Letter to Georgios Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece, called "There is a life after death"
Here are a few excerpts...