terça-feira, 20 de março de 2012
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Ponzi scheme runs out of suckers
Euro Defaults Loom as National Ponzi Schemes ‘Run Out of Suckers’: Books
They do have a habit of reneging on their loans, though, as Citi learned the hard way when Argentina and more than a dozen other nations defaulted in the 1980s.
“The massive debts accumulated over the last 40 years can’t be paid in full, and they won’t be paid,” Coggan says.“The debt crises of Greece, Ireland and Portugal are just the start.”
With its aging populations and overstretched budgets, the West’s “Ponzi scheme is running out of suckers,” he says. Put that in your longer-term refinancing pipe and toke it.
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Comment: When the dollar standard is gone it is not guaranteed that China will deliver.
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