Category: Eurozone Debt Crisis
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, December 09, 2011
Germany Wins Eurozone War, UK Veto Puts Britain on the Fast Track to EU Exit / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Nadeem_Walayat
"Britain will never join the Euro".... Germany has effectively won the Eurozone war as one after another EU states bowed to German pressure to toe the ECB / Bundesbank line for greater monetary union and centralised fiscal management under the guise of saving the euro or effectively face monetary death through either ever higher market interest rates such as that suffered by bankrupt Greece's 2 year bonds trading at a yield of 33%, or ejection from the Euro-zone and resulting economic collapse and an hyperinflationary wipeout of all savings.
Friday, December 09, 2011
Engineering the Eurozone Collapse / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Videos
The leaders of the EU prepare for a summit this week as the Eurozone continues to spin out of control. But how did the collapse begin, and who will profit from it?
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Eurozone's Light Bulb Moment / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: EWI
How many European bankers does it take to change a light bulb? That's a joke in search of an answer, but EWI's European analyst Brian Whitmer explained five months ago that the "light bulb moment" was coming -- that's the time when most people would clearly recognize the severity of the European debt crisis. He offered this spot-on analysis back in July 2011, before the larger world came to know recently how bad things really are in the eurozone.
Thursday, December 08, 2011
PIMCO's El-Erian: ECB Waiting for IMF, Governments to 'Step Up' / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Bloomberg
PIMCO CEO and co-CIO Mohamed El-Erian spoke to Bloomberg Television's Betty Liu about Europe's crisis and said that the ECB is waiting for governments and the IMF to "step up" before taking further action.
El-Erian also said that PIMCO's investment tone is to "be careful" and that the bond fund is maintaining a "generally defensive and selectively offensive" investment strategy.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
The Risk of Sovereign Debt / Interest-Rates / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: David_Howden
With a 50 percent haircut recently given on the Greek sovereign-debt question, investors are increasingly asking what the real risk of sovereign debt is. It would appear that investors underpriced the risk inherent in sovereign debt, especially that of Europe's periphery. One might even go so far as to say that investors made foolish choices in the past and are now getting their just deserts.
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
The European Debt Crisis and Unstable Currency Markets / Currencies / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Bob_Chapman
Even the middle of the road journalists are beginning to question Europe’s elected and appointed leadership. This past Monday the plan for the euro zone was laid out for a final capitulation to world government. The financial crisis has been handled from behind the scenes by the Fed, so that Germany’s Chancellor Merkel and France’s President can concentrate on more important matters, namely the final federalization of the euro zone to be followed by the entrapment of the remainder of the European Union.
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
S&P Warns Eurozone, Fix it or Else! / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
By timing its downgrade threat to the same week as a key European Union (EU) summit on the debt crisis, Standard & Poor's is essentially telling Europe's leaders to "Fix it or else."
The ratings agency said late Monday that it had put the credit of 15 Eurozone countries, including AAA-rated Germany, on a 90-day watch. The move means each affected country has 50% chance of a downgrade.
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Europe's Debt Crisis and Solutions / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Bloomberg
Sir Howard Davies, former deputy governor of the Bank of England and former director of the London School of Economics, spoke to Bloomberg TV's Erik Schatzker and Sara Eisen this morning and said that it is will not “make a huge amount of difference” if the S&P downgrade the Eurozone. He also said that there needs to be a European finance minister.
Sunday, December 04, 2011
Is Germany Playing a Saving the Euro-zone Double Game? / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: DK_Matai
German chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Europe to “take one big step towards fiscal union” as the price for the European Central Bank's intervention to rescue the weaker member nations. Each Eurozone member has to decide "Yes" or "No" swiftly, whether it considers Germany's terms acceptable. Given the difficulty of complying at short notice, some distinguished ATCA 5000 members wonder privately if Dr Merkel is suggesting one way forward to the Eurozone members, whilst preparing vigorously for Germany's exit on the other hand?
Friday, December 02, 2011
Europe's Crisis is a Bit Perverse / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Andrew_McKillop
The supposedly dominant, supposedly sole possible ideology of market fundamentalism assumes that the most extensive possible use of markets, through inventing or "marketizing" previously non-traded assets, the privatization of publicly owned assets, and the shrinking of public services can only unleash maximal competition. This in turn is assumed to result in and deliver the greatest public good.
Thursday, December 01, 2011
ECB Gift Wrapped Liquidity Christmas Present / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Ben_Traynor
Is the ECB about to give Europe's governments and banks the biggest Christmas present of their lives...?
WITH CHRISTMAS a little over three weeks away, the European Central Bank may be about to hand indebted European governments – not to mention its banking sector – the biggest gift they ever received: an unlimited credit backstop.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The European Debt Crisis and Your Investments / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: EWI
In 1999, 11 European countries surrendered their currencies for the euro and a shared monetary authority. Barely a decade later, the once-celebrated EU and its currency are facing collapse. Elliott Wave International has just published a free report to help you gain a valuable perspective on the European debt crisis and get ahead of what it could mean for your portfolio.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Guide to Saving the Euro / Currencies / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Axel_Merk
Can the euro be saved? Is it possible to stem the flight of money from the periphery into the core? With a botched German auction in mind, investors are now wondering whether it’s possible to prevent a flight out of “all things euro”? We examine the dual challenges of fiscal sustainability and bank solvency in this analysis, with the not-so-modest title “Guide to Save the Euro”.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Europe's Debt Crisis, The Free Market vs. the Total State / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Gary_North
On November 22, the New York Times published an interactive chart on which governments owe how much money to which foreign nation's banks. The chart reveals the fault lines in Europe's economy. The debts are owed above all to French banks. The biggest debtor is Italy. If Italy defaults, France's largest banks go down. Overnight.
On Monday, November 28, there was a Financial Times article speculating that the Eurozone has less than two weeks to survive. The headline: "The Eurozone really has only days to avoid a collapse." It was written by an associate editor of the publication.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Financial Armageddon Delayed; All Quiet on the European Bond Market Front / Interest-Rates / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Mike_Shedlock
European bonds had a good day today. A good day is when nothing blows up.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Euro-zone Debt Crisis, Where Would We Be Without Rules? / Economics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Adrian_Ash
"Where would be if we didn't have rules?"
"FRANCE!"
"And where would we be if we had too many rules?"
"GERMANY!"
– UK comedian Al Murray, the (very British) Pub Landlord
Monday, November 28, 2011
Eurozone Being Swallowed by Expanding Debt Black Holes, Mega Bond Market Profits and Default Booms / Interest-Rates / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The stock markets plunged last week and euro-zone bond market volatility increased with PIIGS yields spiking to new Euro highs as pressure mounts on the ECB to start printing money to monetize bankrupting PIIGS debt that effectively act as expanding debt black holes that threaten to swallow first the whole of the Eurozone and soon after collapse the worlds financial system.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Bankers Have Seized Control of Europe, Goldman Sachs Has Taken Over / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
On November 25, two days after a failed German government bond auction in which Germany was unable to sell 35% of its offerings of 10-year bonds, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany might retreat from its demands that the private banks that hold the troubled sovereign debt from Greece, Italy, and Spain must accept part of the cost of their bailout by writing off some of the debt. The private banks want to avoid any losses either by forcing the Greek, Italian, and Spanish governments to make good on the bonds by imposing extreme austerity on their citizens, or by having the European Central Bank print euros with which to buy the sovereign debt from the private banks. Printing money to make good on debt is contrary to the ECB’s charter and especially frightens Germans, because of the Weimar experience with hyperinflation.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Extreme Eurozone Disruption? Peril Threatens Financial Globalisation? / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: DK_Matai
1. The crisis in the Eurozone has reached fever pitch as all the alarm signals have gone on red alert in the bond markets;
2. Italian bond yields at a record of nearly 8% coupled with German bund yields above those of the US and the UK, suggest that the entire core of the Eurozone is now infected;
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
The Mega Banks Seizing Control of Europe / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Bob_Chapman
In Europe each time a new player is presented we find he is a Goldman Sachs’ alumnus. Recent entries are Mario Monti “appointed” PM of Italy, Lucas Papademas “appointed” PM of Greece and Mario Dragahi “appointed” President of the European Central Bank. The banks blatantly control governments and agencies presenting us with an oligarchy, which controls most of the nations on the planet. In America politicians are bought and paid for. In Europe there is a different mind set, a shared worldview of bureaucrats, technocrats, politicians and the elite bankers of world government and domination. What has happened in this process is that Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and other mega-banking has retained power for decades. They control all the players in the field, so the outcome is always in their favor. The bankers and others in turn are paid via billions of dollars in bonuses. Banks are now bank holding companies having become that to avoid failure as brokerage firms. That is the case in the US, UK and Europe.