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On Greece and Contagion

It’s Not About Greece Anymore

The Greek “rescue” package announced last weekend is dramatic, unprecedented and far from enough to stabilize the euro zone.

The Greek government and the European Union leadership…have abandoned previous rounds of optimistic forecasts and have now admitted to a profoundly worse situation.

This new program calls for “fiscal adjustments” — cuts to the [...]

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Market Watch: S&P cuts Greece ratings to junk status

Standard & Poor’s said Tuesday it cut Greece’s ratings to junk status.

The ratings agency lowered the long-term sovereign credit rating on Greece to BB+ from BBB+.

The outlook is negative.

“The downgrade results from our updated assessment of the political, economic, and budgetary challenges that the Greek government faces in its efforts to put the public debt [...]

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John Taylor on Greece

Greece Is Out, We Just Have To Sort Out the Details

…Although there do not seem to be more than 100 people in all of New York City that have any interest or concept of what is going on in Greece and within the euro, the events of the next few months will have a tremendous [...]

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Is Greece California? (Deflation Edition)

If sovereign and municipal credit markets tighten,
how could unemployment and business profitability be affected
if Greece, some other relatively weak European countries
and some US states implement severe budget cutbacks and tax increases
to balance budget deficits?

If the EU/US doesn’t bailout Greece/California
could the Euro and the US dollar retain credibility as commodity prices fall?

Could deleveraging in developed countries [...]

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Is Greece California? (Inflation Edition)

Under a shared common currency, can a Eurozone member like Greece,
or an American state like California, inflate out of excessive spending and debt?

What could some unintended consequences be
if the European Union and/or the US federal government
intentionally inflate money supplies
to subsidize EU member and/or American state spending, debt and deficits?

Why would some oil exporters become reluctant [...]

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On Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy etc…: Have the educated underemployed instigated most rebellions?

Those who would give up essential liberty
to purchase a little temporary security,
deserve neither liberty nor security.

Benjamin Franklin

Greece faces strike barrage over austerity cuts

Greek tax collectors and customs officers walked off the job on Thursday, kicking off a spate of strikes against government austerity cuts designed to halt a financial crisis caused [...]

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