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Contagion Could Spread If Greece Exits Euro

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
edited April 2015 in Politics
I wonder if the house of cards is coming down? Just Kick it in and watch it all collapse? Could it really happen that way?

serf

http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/greece-out-of-funds-by-month-end-default-and-drachma-imminent/

Derivatives have been described by Warren Buffet as `financial weapons of mass destruction'. A crisis in the derivatives market would badly impact the entire western financial system and could cause contagion.

In March we wrote with regards to the fact that Deutsche Bank had not passed the Fed's stress test, "Equally troubling, is the fact that Deutsche Bank, who have derivatives exposure of over a whopping _54 trillion - almost nine times the GDP of the entire Eurozone - has serious issues with risk management."

In March we wrote with regards to the fact that Deutsche Bank had not passed the Fed's stress test, "Equally troubling, is the fact that Deutsche Bank, who have derivatives exposure of over a whopping _54 trillion - almost nine times the GDP of the entire Eurozone - has serious issues with risk management."

Comments

  • chiefrchiefr Member Posts: 14,083 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Greece is taking advantage of its status in the EU. If the EU had any sense at all, the EU would have kicked Greece out already. Pumping good money into what can only be described as a giant entitlement, welfare state money pit is plain stupid.

    Greece is a case study in what to expect within other countries when they drink the socialism Kool-Aid. Greece just happens to be farther to the socialist left than other EU countries and the symptoms can no longer be ignored.

    Greece used to own the ship building industry and ship building made Greece wealthy, that is until the socialists taxed ship building out of the country.

    Why is Greece and EU important: Look at what is happening in Western Europe and you will see exactly what Obama and his socialists have in store for the USA.
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