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Germany, France Call for Fiscal and Political Union. Public Ignorance Vital for Success of EU Power Grab
Germany, France Call for Fiscal and Political Union. Public Ignorance Vital for Success of EU Power Grab Since Europe’s sovereign debt problems exploded onto the scene in 2010 the European Union has masterfully exploited the crisis to strengthen its grip over the old continent. It has stripped once-proud, independent nations of the last vestiges of […]
Greece: It’s Time For Your Default And Debt Restructuring
Greece: It’s Time For Your Default And Debt Restructuring For some reason, people think a sovereign default, and a subsequent debt restructuring such as Greece’s government faces, is something that is conceivable – the proverbial asteroid hitting the earth – but which has never actually happened. Sometimes, raw data says more than words. According to […]
Why Is The EU Forcing European Nations To Adopt ‘Bail-In’ Legislation By The End Of The Summer?
Why Is The EU Forcing European Nations To Adopt ‘Bail-In’ Legislation By The End Of The Summer? Are they expecting something to happen? As you will read about below, the European Union says that any nation within the EU that does not enact “bail-in” legislation within the next two months will face legal action. The countries […]
Stay Out Of Harm’s Way—-The Casino Is Fixing To Blow
Stay Out Of Harm’s Way—-The Casino Is Fixing To Blow Shock waves have been rumbling through the global bond market in the last few days. On April 17 the yield on the 10-year German bund pierced through the 5bps level, but yesterday it tagged 100bps. That amounted to a 20X move in 39 trading days. It also amounted to total annihilation if you […]
Greece: Out Of Cash, Out Of Time, Out Of Options
Greece: Out Of Cash, Out Of Time, Out Of Options On Friday Greece is due to pay at least a quarter of the €1.5bn due to the IMF in June. … The creditors say they will only disburse the money if the Greek government enacts various key economic reforms and does not roll back reforms the […]
Central Banks Are Pointing A Weapon Of Financial Mass Destruction—–Right At The Global Bond Markets
Central Banks Are Pointing A Weapon Of Financial Mass Destruction—–Right At The Global Bond Markets For the first time in its country’s history, Portugal sold 6 month T-bills at a negative yield. The 300 million euros ($333 million) worth of bills due in November 2015 sold at an average yield of minus 0.002%. A negative […]
Alexis Tsipras: The Bell Tolls for Europe
Alexis Tsipras: The Bell Tolls for Europe This is a letter From Greek PM Alexis Tsipras in today’s Le Monde. I have little to add, his eloquence needs few comments at this moment. One thing is certain: the negotiations will never be the same. And neither will Europe. Straight from the Prime Minister’s offical website: : Alexis […]
Euro-sclerosis
Euro-sclerosis There appears to be little or nothing in the monetarists’ handbook to enable them to assess the risk of a loss of confidence in the purchasing power of a paper currency. Furthermore, since today’s macroeconomists have chosen to deny Say’s Law1, otherwise known as the laws of the markets, they have little hope of […]
Greece – Stumbling Toward Default
Greece – Stumbling Toward Default Good Cop Under Fire On June 5, Greece has to pay €240 million to the IMF. A week later another €270 million are coming due. All in all, Greece has to pay back €1.5 billion in IMF loans over the month of June. All indications are that the Greek government […]
The Pressure Just Shifted from Greece to the US and EU
The Pressure Just Shifted from Greece to the US and EU With the 3rd US Q1 GDP print coming in at -0.7% (-3% if not for inventories), perhaps the media spotlights – and lively imagination – can move away from Greece for a few weeks. The US has enough problems of its own, it would […]
EU May Take Desperate Measures To Ensure Energy Security
EU May Take Desperate Measures To Ensure Energy Security Oft forgotten and on the periphery of the European Union, the Balkans plus Ukraine may have a plan to address the energy needs of the economic bloc. It’s coal-heavy, borderline uneconomic, and arguably counterproductive to respective national agendas, but it does aim to satisfy some particularly […]
Why Europe can’t let Greek economy crumble: Don Pittis
Why Europe can’t let Greek economy crumble: Don Pittis EU must find solution that does not propose stripping elderly of pensions There are vultures in the financial community snapping their beaks and waiting for a Graccident. If you haven’t heard the term before, Graccident is the latest rhetorical bastardization of the English language after Grexit, wherein you attach the […]
Pray For Graccident—–It Will Trigger The Demise Of The ECB And The World’s Toxic Regime Of Keynesian Central Banking
Pray For Graccident—–It Will Trigger The Demise Of The ECB And The World’s Toxic Regime Of Keynesian Central Banking It is not surprising that in a few short months Yanis Varoufakis has proven himself to be a thoroughgoing Keynesian statist. After all, what would you expect from an economics PhD who co-authored books with Jamie Galbraith? […]
Bank Of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret Brexit Plan To Newspaper
Bank Of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret Brexit Plan To Newspaper The first rule of “Project Bookend” is that you don’t talk about “Project Bookend.” In retrospect, maybe the first rule should have been “you don’t accidentally e-mail ‘Project Bookend’ to a news agency”, because as the Guardian reports, one of its editors opened his inbox […]
Greece Says That It Will Default On June 5th, And Moody’s Warns Of A ‘Deposit Freeze’
Greece Says That It Will Default On June 5th, And Moody’s Warns Of A ‘Deposit Freeze’ The Greek government says that a “moment of truth” is coming on June 5th. Either their lenders agree to give them more money by that date, or Greece will default on a 300 million euro loan payment to the […]
