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We discuss when the ‘EU will be couping and the Greeks will be capitulating,’ while in the US, Senators are introducing legislation to allow Puerto Rico to file Chapter 9 bankruptcy in order to avoid a debt prisoner situation as…
We discuss when the ‘EU will be couping and the Greeks will be capitulating,’ while in the US, Senators are introducing legislation to allow Puerto Rico to file Chapter 9 bankruptcy in order to avoid a debt prisoner situation as…
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In his 2006 book Traders, Guns and Money the former banker and corporate treasurer Satyajit Das explains the central role that complex derivatives and financial products played in the global financial crisis. Over 340+ pages the author provides a dizzying…
In his 2006 book Traders, Guns and Money the former banker and corporate treasurer Satyajit Das explains the central role that complex derivatives and financial products played in the global financial crisis. Over 340+ pages the author provides a dizzying…
Thank goodness everything’s been fixed. Now that the bigshots in the Eurozone have given Greece the Humphrey Bogart treatment– When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it, Bogart’s line as he bullied Peter Lorre in The Maltese Falcon–and a…
Thank goodness everything’s been fixed. Now that the bigshots in the Eurozone have given Greece the Humphrey Bogart treatment– When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it, Bogart’s line as he bullied Peter Lorre in The Maltese Falcon–and a…
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The Greek people are furious.
Where’s the new bailout money going? Not to the Greek people. This is clear. Friday, the European Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) of the 28 EU economic and finance ministers, officially approved the “bridge loan” of EU7.16 billion to cover debt payments while the new bailout is negotiated. Of that, EU4.5 billion is going directly to the European Central Bank on July 20 to pay interest on Greek bonds held by the ECB; the rest is going to the IMF to cover the payments Greece failed to make at the end of June, which only covers payments up to Aug. 20. Later in August another payment is due to the ECB, which Greece, without a bailout, will not be able to make. If Greece does not make these payments, and Greece does not have the money to pay them, then Greece’s entire unsustainable debt pile would be declared in default, a move whose consequences would go way beyond Greece.
The bridge-loan funds came from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), according to European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis, who said that Great Britain expressed its strong opposition regarding funding via the ESM, of which it is a financial backer although it is not in the Eurozone. Reportedly, Britain has made an arrangement that it would not suffer losses if the ESM loan to Greece were defaulted on.
The negotiations for a new bailout are currently being approved by parliaments throughout Europe (in nations requiring votes). Germany, Austria, and Latvia voted up approval for the talks. The negotiations could result in a new bailout of between EU82 billion to more than EU90 billion. Where will the money go?
The popular Greek website DefenceNet published a preliminary rundown of where it claims the debt will be going. It includes:
—EU29.7 billion for loan repayments within the Eurozone
—EU9.9 billion to the IMF
—EU5.5 billion to private debt holders.
—EU25 billion for the recapitalization of the banking system (which was destroyed when ECB cut off liquidity)
—EU17.2 billion in interest payments on debt.
—EU7 billion for domestic debt.
—EU7.7 billion for the liquidity of the banking system.
As for France’s backing for debt relief, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin told Europe 1 radio, that debt relief could involve measures such as an extension of maturities, lengthening of the grace period on repayment, or easing of interest rates. However, Sapin ruled out any write-off of Greek loans, saying that as a creditor, France wanted to ensure it gets its money back, according to Reuters.
On Thursday, Bernie Sanders (Ind.-VT) became the fifth Senator to sponsor the Glass-Steagall bill, S. 1709, introduced last week by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), John McCain (R-AZ), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Angus King (Ind.-ME). Sanders’ office put out an official announcement on Friday, the day that he was appearing in Iowa with all four other Democratic presidential pre-candidates, including Martin O’Malley, who made Glass-Steagall the main issue of his campaign back in March, and one day before Sanders is scheduled to speak on the podium with O’Malley at the Netroots progressives’ conference in Arizona.
In covering Sanders’ announcement, Politico reported, “Sanders backs big bank breakups, in contrast with Hillary Clinton,” and referenced the Monday intervention by a LaRouche PAC activist, saying that “a heckler … challenged her [clinton] to revive the depression-era policy [glass-steagall].”
Sanders’ statement says:
“On July 1, 1999, while Congress was voting on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to permit commercial banks, investment banks, and insurance companies to merge, then-Rep. Sanders said: ‘I believe this legislation, in its current form, will do more harm than good. It will lead to fewer banks and financial service providers; increased charges and fees for individual consumers and small businesses; diminished credit for rural America; and taxpayer exposure to potential losses should a financial conglomerate fail. It will lead to more mega-mergers; a small number of corporations dominating the financial service industry; and further concentration of economic power in our country.’
“Looking back today, Sanders said: ‘Allowing commercial banks to merge with investment banks and insurance companies in 1999 was a huge mistake. It precipitated the largest taxpayer bailout in the history of the world. It caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs, homes, life savings and ability to send their kids to college. It substantially increased wealth and income inequality and it led to the enormous concentration of economic power in this country.
“Sanders continued: ‘I am proud to have led the fight in the House against repealing the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999. Sixteen years ago, I predicted that such a massive deregulation of the financial services industry would seriously harm the economy…. unfortunately what happened seven years ago was even worse than I predicted.’
“Sanders concluded: ‘Today, not only must we reinstate this important law, but if we are truly serious about ending too big to fail, we have got to break up the largest financial institutions in this country. If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.’”