Category: Eurozone Debt Crisis
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Spanish Debt Grows by €146 Billion, Largest Ever Recorded / Interest-Rates / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Mike_Shedlock
Proof there is no rebalancing in Europe is easy to find. For example, El Pais reports Spanish Debt Grows by €146 Billion.
What follows is a Mish-modified translation of the above Google-translation.
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Saturday, February 16, 2013
What Happens to a Financial System When Its Two Biggest Pillars Collapse? / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Graham_Summers
Those EU leaders who have yet to be implicated in scandals are not faring much better than their more corrupt counterparts. In France, socialist Prime Minister Francois Hollande, has proven yet again that socialism doesn’t work by chasing after the wealthy and trying to grow France’s public sector… when the public sector already accounts for 56% of French employment.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Eurozone Debt Crisis Isn't Over, Investors Cannot Relax / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: After nearly four years, billions in bailouts and increasingly strict austerity measures, not only is the Eurozone debt crisis no closer to resolution, but the attempts to solve it are pushing the region deeper into recession.
According to Eurostat, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the 17-nation Eurozone plunged 0.6% in the final quarter of 2012, a steeper drop than the 0.4% economists had expected and the worst decline since 2009.
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Berlusconi is Back, and So Is the Eurozone Debt Crisis / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Since the beginning of the year, the markets have been behaving as if the Eurozone debt crisis has been magically solved.
Yields on Spanish and Italian debt are trading more than 1% lower than at their peak, while world stock markets have soared close to all-time highs.
Unfortunately, you can expect that all of this euphoria will fade when the Italian elections take place on February 23-24.
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
New Cracks Appear in the Eurozone From Cyprus / Interest-Rates / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: For the past few months, the eurozone financial crisis has significantly subsided, at least on the surface. However, because of the fragility within the eurozone, it won’t take much for a new financial crisis to be sparked.
There are new questions arising about the future of the eurozone, and these begin not with the giant nations of that union, but with tiny Cyprus.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Eurozone 2013 Breakup Now Even More Likely / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
To the complete shock of several analysts, the Eurozone managed to make it through 2012 without breaking up. However, 2013 is another story.
Now that Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti has resigned, there's a good chance that Italy will be in the forefront of a new Eurozone crisis.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
France In Big Trouble, EU Just Lost Another Prop / Economics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Graham_Summers
Meanwhile, as Greece continues to distract the markets, France, the other primary prop for the EU besides Germany, is now experiencing an economic contraction on par with that of 2008-2009.
Indeed, France’s September’s auto sales numbers were worse than those of September 2008 (the month Lehman collapsed). The country’s PMI reading is back to April 2009 levels. Even the French Central Bank, which would hold off as long as possible before unveiling bad news, has announced the country will re-enter recession before year-end.
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
How Spanish Debt Default Would Trigger an Epic Financial Crash / Interest-Rates / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Graham_Summers
Over the last week I’ve introduced the concept of collateral: the little known basis for the entire financial system. We’ve also addressed why any EU sovereign default would bring about an epic meltdown as EU bonds, particularly those of Spain and Italy are the collateral underlying hundreds of trillions of Euros worth of trades for EU banks.
Again, the most important issue for the financial system is the search for high quality collateral.
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Monday, November 19, 2012
Euro Crisis: Major Implications For Investors / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: John_Browne
The euro crisis has begun to feel like an everlasting steeplechase with high hedges and water obstacles blocking the path to economic resurgence on the Continent. Each time a hurdle has been cleared another problem emerges to potentially block the track. The latest developments involve ugly anti-austerity riots across the southern tier and open rifts emerging among the creditors, most notably between the International Monetary Fund and northern nations. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
IMF and Eurogroup Fall out Over Greece Debt to GDP Ratio Reduction Timing / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Ian_R_Campbell
An article today reports on an apparent disagreement that arose last night between Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the Eurogroup of Finance Ministers, and Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. Mr. Juncker is reported as having said that Greece will be given two additional years - to 2022 from 2020 - to meet its debt reduction target of 120% of GDP. Ms. Lagarde is reported as having taken exception to this saying she and Mr. Juncker "clearly have different views" on Greek debt.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
The Tragedy Of The Euro! What About Germany? / Economics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: GoldSilverWorlds
Brecht Arnaert writes: 2012 has been a year of great turmoil for the euro. But our economy is not the only thing that is in crisis. Our economic theory is too, and even more so: for decades macro-economic policy has been conducted within a Keynesian framework, and while no Keynesian economist has predicted this crisis, or even is able to explain it’s causes, we are still listening to them today to get out of the mess they brought us into. I would say that this is a problem of legitimacy.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Bankrupt Greece Unlikely to Get Bailout Next Week / Interest-Rates / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Ian_R_Campbell
It has now been reported that for logistical reasons it is very unlikely Greece will be able to draw down on further bailout funds before the week of November 19 at the earliest, notwithstanding the approval of the Greek Parliament on Wednesday of the austerity measures proposed last Monday. This is said to result from:
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
Bond Markets Train Wreck to Benefit Gold / Interest-Rates / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Ben_Traynor
Why investors, fearful of currency depreciation, have turned to gold...
Not so long ago, everyone seemed to think Greece was about to leave the Euro.
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012
“TOP SECRET” ECB Debt Crisis Report / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: David_Hague
Dear reader, by now you will have read at least 1000 articles discussing the debt crisis and/or the fiscal cliff. Like me, you have probably concluded that both the debt crisis and the fiscal cliff will land badly with severe consequences to the global economy. Let us dispense with any more debate about our predicament. Collectively, central governments owe 50 trillion dollars. It will never be repaid; there will be a cascade of defaults by sovereign nations. The defaults will cause chaos in the global banking system. As well, the sovereign defaults will trigger dramatic social and economic upheaval on an epic scale. There will be no capital available for the private sector for a very long time. To argue against these outcomes is nonsense. Only an idiot or a Nobel Prize winning economist would postulate that other outcomes are possible.
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Eurozone Civil War: It's North vs. South, Washington to the Rescue? / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Peter_Schiff
J.Luis Martìn writes: Although the eurozone crisis did not make it into the US presidential debate on foreign policy in October, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner did remark earlier in the month: "We are very worried about the risk of collapse in Europe." Indeed, he should be, for a collapse of the euro would not only send shockwaves through the already fragile world economy, but would also undermine America's own escape strategy of currency debasement. This makes preservation of the status-quo in Europe an essential part of the United States' plan to avert its so-called fiscal cliff - even if it means that Washington has to increase its exposure to the faltering economies across the pond.
Saturday, November 03, 2012
Euro-zone Debt Crisis Deepening as Greece Runs Out of Money on November 16th / Interest-Rates / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Global_Research
Nick Beams writes: The eurozone financial crisis is set to deepen following this week’s release of debt projections for the Greek economy. Budget estimates show that instead of peaking at 167 percent of gross domestic product, as predicted last March when the so-called bailout package was put in place, the debt ratio will hit 189 percent this year, rising to 192 percent in 2014—well above the worst case scenarios of just eight months ago.
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Spain Offers Yet Another Impossible Solution to Its Debt, Economic Problems / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Graham_Summers
Spain continues to heap one impossible idea on top of another.
The latest “plan” consists of Spain creating a bad bank called SAREB that will buy up bad assets in Spain in an effort to clean up the country’s finances.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Spain Continuing Economic Collapse, But Still No Bailout Request / Economics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Ian_R_Campbell
Spain’s National Statistics Institute said Monday that retail sales fell 11% year/year in September, and the Bank of Spain last week said it expected that Q3 would show the 5th quarterly GDP drop in a row. Further, when asked Monday whether Spain would seek a credit line from the eurozone’s rescue fund Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is reported as saying that would happen “when I think it is in the interests of Spain”.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Bankrupt Spain is Beyond Saving / Interest-Rates / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Graham_Summers
My prediction regarding the breakup of the EU was obviously way early.
However, the fact remains that the EU will break up in time. And it will likely be Spain that brings this about.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Secession Fever Sweeping Europe Meaningless Without Debt Repudiation / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Ron_Holland
While regional independence is superior to both the failing European Union and the façade of special interest controlled democracy, one further action should taken by any jurisdictions that choose secession: Newly restored sovereign nations should repudiate their share of the illegitimate sovereign debt when they exit existing unions and nation-states. Created by distant banking elites buying national politicians and parliaments to load up on sovereign debts that can never be paid off, this massive national debt load is illegitimate and destructive to existing and new national economies.