27 European nations and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) "pledged" 750 billion Euros ($955 billion) to bailout Euro countries in dire need. As a result, the European financial crisis is supposedly contained and global stock markets are surging.
But when market makers realize how little substance is behind that pledge, stock markets will sell-off again because this is really a global financial crisis and it will hit the U.S. hard.
Of the 27 European nations making this pledge, many such as Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain and Great Britain are broke. It is essentially a German pledge and the German people don't support it. For the money to be committed, the Parliaments of each nation must approve spending the funds, and that is no sure thing.
Meanwhile, the IMF is dominated by the U.S., so its pledge is largely an American pledge. But the U.S. is the world's biggest debtor nation and it too is broke. Instead of helping the cause, it is actually desperate to borrow European money and it too is in dire need of a bailout, although ironically it doesn't yet acknowledge it.
What this really is, is a bailout of global banks and other giant financial institutions with vast exposure to an economic collapse. The intent is to build confidence in the global financial markets so they can function, through the deception of an international government bailout, but it will fail as events spin out of control.
If you are an American, brace yourself. But as in the Great Depression, people will come together to help one-another get through it. Eventually, out of the ashes of an economy that was built on a military empire and huge government deficit spending will rise a more prosperous, stronger nation with entrepreneurial Silicon Valley type enterprises at its core.
If ever you doubt that premise, just look at firms such as Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, E-Bay, Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Oracle software and the list of these highly successful, employment providing, taxpaying firms goes on and on, and there will be more to come.
Dick
3 comments:
It is like plugging a hole with a bigger hole. This placebo is filled with poison and once the majority figures this out, the death spiral will be on!
Looks like it still isn't sticking. News of Sarkozy threatening to leave the EU if Germany didn't bailout Greece has sent the markets tumbling again. Everybody knows that this bailout still isn't anything approaching a fix. I wonder what the next bazooka they'll pull out is?
Dear Reader,
Europe is now caught up in an endless series of bailouts, if in fact, they really intend to bail each other out. Other than maybe covering Greek debt obligations coming due starting on 5/19, I doubt it will happen on a grand scale as would be necessary and some European nations will default.
The impact of these defaults on many global banks and some other giant investors will be horrific, as they will be forced to write off staggering sized debts.
As for the IMF, it is controlled by the U.S. and the U.S. is broke, although it pretends otherwise. Americans and the British, whose nation is also broke, would be wise to watch what will happen in Greece, Portugal, Spain, etc. as a prelude to what will confront them.
Global investors are figuring this out and Euro-Zone, British and eventually U.S. government debt will be a very tough sell.
I take no pleasure in telling you these things. The comments are made with an ache in my heart.
Dick
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