Eurozone finance ministers sealed a deal Tuesday morning for a second bailout for Greece, including ?130 billion ($173 billion) in new financing. Continue reading...
The deal satisfies some. This guy writing in Forbes says the deal is farcical. How can you improve the debt to GDP ratio when what you are doing is going to kill the GDP. Besides, all that's really happening is that the creditors are basically just cutting a loan to themselves just to make things look solvent. Either way it may all be moot as Greece may be scheduled to default in late March anyway. After working things to make their own accounts look OK they may just go ahead and pull the plug - think of it as international foreclosure.
In this article, MF Global demonstrates the crucial difference between a default and a haircut and why it matters so much.
Don't worry, it will happen in the USA soon. Obama/Pelosi/etc will not be outdone. Rapists will be given Viagra too.
Probably true. The Greeks pour into the streets and bust things up. The Americans will just fold and take it.
sadly, u are correct... but i also think we're gonna start dying in large quantities right in front of god and everybody....