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Then their bad loans would have to be marked to market, their creditors and the counterparties to all their transactions would realise a whole load of currently unrealised losses, financial contagion would spread like wildfire again as banks would be unable to lend to each other and to industry, the economies of western countries and quite possibly export-driven emerging market countries would fall off a cliff and we'd fall back into a depression the like of which we haven't seen since the 30s.
Which is why the government stepped in to begin with, right?
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Let's be clear - to all intents and purposes Greece has defaulted. It can't pay its debts and others are being forced to do so for it. The only debate is whether the resulting loss is taken by governments (via bailout funds) or by the banks that hold its loans.
For me the scariest chart I saw throughout the whole financial crisis in '08 had nothing to do with bank losses but showed the volume of global trade. It fell off an enormous cliff because banks were not extending the finance necessary to keep it going. World trade is the world economy.
Whatever you think about the causes of all these issues (and I am increasingly coming to the view that there was clear fraudulent activity on a massive scale in the origination and packaging of the sub-prime mortgage loans) one thing is clear to me: the banks are in too much of a mess to be simply cut loose. This was true in '08 and it remains true now because substantially the same problem exists and has simply been moved from one place to another.
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frogbeastegg's TWS2 guide....it's here!
Come to the Throne Room to play multiplayer hotseat campaigns and RPGs in M2TW.
Furunculus Maneuver: Adopt a highly logical position on a controversial subject where you cannot disagree with the merits of the proposal, only disagree with an opinion based on fundamental values. - Beskar
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