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Europe Scrambling To Avoid Subordination Threat
It just gets more and more mind-numbing by the moment. The latest from Europe, which earlier confirmed that ESM loans would get preferred creditor status:
- SPANISH BANK RECAPITALIZATION LIKELY TO BE IN EFSF BONDS, SIMILAR TO GREEK RECAPITALIZATION - EU OFFICIAL
- EUROZONE MONEY FOR SPANISH BANK RECAP COULD COME FROM EFSF TO AVOID THE ESM'S PREFERRED CREDITOR PROBLEM - EU OFFICIAL
- SPANISH BAILOUT COULD LATER BE TAKEN OVER BY THE ESM, BUT EXTENDED LOANS WOULD NOT BECOME SENIOR TO OTHER DEBT
Nothing like figuring out your hare-brained bailout attempt was a failure from the beginning. Ok: Here are the problems with this band aid:
- Unfunded
- Temporary, and eventually will be replaced by the ESM. Markets can, luckily, still discount.
- Negative pledge issue still exists as Finland made all too clear. Countries will demand extra security interest while under EFSF regime and until ESM priming comes in play.
Finally, all of this, is just semantics. To quote from SocGen earlier: "If the loans are paid by the ESM, the loans given to FROB will be more clearly senior to SPGBs, though we expect de facto seniority in any case."
Ball is in your court Europe.
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I predict a sharp rise in bailout rhetoric.
No pain no gain.
Meanwhile, in other vicious squeeze news:
“Indian state-owned refiners will halt planned oil imports of 173,000 barrels per day from Iran when European sanctions take effect in July, unless the government permits them to use insurance and freight arranged by Tehran”
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/11/india-iran-oil-idINL3E8HB48B20120611
I've been to circuses that are better run than these Euro-Ponzi bailouts.
Wow... Hitler must be kicking himself right about now and saying..."Why didn't I think of that? You can conquer Europe by loaning the lazy money. Brilliant!"
http://annoyanidiot.blogspot.com/
Chief
Works in every strategy game Ive plyed too. Loan money at cheap rates. The interest burden slowly erodes the borrowers abillity to fund a millitary and the interest income allows the lender to slowly build a superior force. By the time you get to bankrupcy one side has 30 year old muskets held by prisoners and the other side has the highest technology tanks and planes. So the borrower cant default without surrendering land.
setting sail for the bailout fail; time for a new telephone conference.
Ironic Statement of the Year Award:
"The future of the Euro and our banking system all won new credibility yesterday"
- Mariano Rajoy, Spanish PM
last sentence should be "Balls are in your face,Europe."
They need a summit. ASAP. Sometime in August should work.
Yes...another "summit". 5 star hotels, 7 course meals, in a luxury setting so they could concentrate, and all on the tax payers dime. Maybe 2 or 3 "summits" are needed this summer.
quick, call the caterer, lets see whats on the menu.
He suggests the hors d'oeuvres be something called soylent
It has to look important, no?
Oh, don't worry. Many more summits will come.
Dummits at a summit. Yep, that should work.
this kind of has a 2008 feeling to it
2008 x 100
Now now... don't everyone shit the bed... after all... Bernanke is on it.
Okay... now shit the bed!
http://annoyanidiot.blogspot.com/
Chief
All your hare-brained bailouts are belong to us.
Like trying to put a fire out with gasoline
I don't think the EU appreciates you dismembering their plans so quickly Tyler.
No kidding! (Cause their plans were oh so solid to begin with!)
Rajoy, that crybaby face? Is it since birth or just after needing bailouts?
What a bunch of ass clowns. I would like to know what is keeping the Euro from just collapsing with these fools running the joint.
never thought i would think it but we might be insulting ass clowns now.
You've got a good point there.
true, at least their job description is honest
It stays afloat because it is measured in that basket of turds known as currency against that supreme turd, the US dollar. They're floaters. When you float one turd you float the rest. You just can't keep a good turd down.
Nothing of substance to see here. Move along.
NEM down 74 cents
GLD down 76 cents
JPM flat
That pretty much says everything.
Yes, of course it does.
IBEX 35 Indexcurrent: 6,613
day high: 6,940
...until they back-handed the "Ball" out. Then...
yes, two seconds in a world of cataclysm
Well, everything but this
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=GLD+Interactive#symbol=gld;range=my;c...
Who are the experts assisting the euro decision makers : kermit and gonzo ?
experts...you mean the Ivy Leaguers?
So Kermit and gonzo...They become muppets.
Hummmmmmmmmmmm.
Krugman.
Now I wish it was Gonzo and Kermit.
It's amazing what you can get away with when you are TBTF.
DOA
"More Cow Bell...!!!!
Coming right up....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5OWFd1LPy4
What is the matter with these people?
They're sociopathic kleptocrats. They're entitled. They're enlightened. We need a benevolent dictator.
Lack of sex, apparently as they constantly need to bailout.
I was a bit surprised the Spanish bailout happened so FAST (market closed, we need money, here it is). I gotta think the fear index is pretty high before the Greek elections.
I will predict that the Italian bailout will be announced BEFORE they ask for it to help smooth out the new cycle.... (in fact, they may already have the money haha)
They just use the script from greece and pass it on to the next set of technocrats. "Hey, this worked for us! Try it out on your flock."
I could go to the local elementary school and watch the second-graders fight about who gets to be first in line...this is better. Pop some corn!
Apart from the incompetence, negligence, confusion, bullshit & general ambiguity, anyone know how delayed an ECB process is due to the need to translate all documents into a zillion different languages. Lol
Soon to be posted worldwide:
Posted sign in the Federal passport office in Toronto:
"CASH is no longer an acceptable method of payment".
I should have taken a picture.
Apart from the incompetence, negligence, confusion, bullshit & general ambiguity, anyone know how delayed an ECB process is due to the need to translate all documents into a zillion different languages. Lol
It's all about a few individuals in the various governments waking up and coming to the realization that the central banks are about to own them, just like Thomas Jefferson warned two centuries ago.
They've been operating under the premise that the banks are their friends, but now their interests are diverging, and chaos is ensuing. Personally, I love a good bit of chaos, and find it quite entertaining, but I hope everything turns out OK in the end and the banks don't end up engineering another war.
Hey what is the breakdown on Spanish law bonds (LUUUZEERRS) vs. UK law bonds (complex Hedge Fund bets may apply now)? "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike" (there that dates me!!!) - AB
Then the ESM tool can never be used so it really isn't a solution to anything?
there is obviously no solution to this fraud
of finance otherwise the genius snow monkey
mind would have already solved it and the
precise steps needed would by now be in the works.
therefore the next step is to discover and prosecute
the fraud. q.e.d..
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QED
An abbreviation of the Latin phrase "quod erat demonstrandum". It literally translates as "which was to be demonstrated", and is a formal way of ending a mathematical, logical or physical proof. It's purpose is to alert the reader that the immediately previous statement, which naturally was arrived at by an unbroken chain of logic, was the original statement that we were trying to prove.
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," say Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that" and promply vanishes in a puff of logic." -- Douglas Adams, from "A Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Proof that x + 3 = 0 if x = -3
x + 3 = (-3) + 3
= 0
QED "
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Greeks will have their hand on detonation plunger on Sunday. Well played Greeks.
ZH called the subordination on Greece and it played out as Tyler stated. Spain will end up the same way. The eurocrats will bail, bail, print, print, and just before the scheme fails the ECB will swoop in and subordinate all investor debt with the exception of English law bonds. This time though those with the english bonds will not be giving them back like some did with Greece. Notice how Greece is paying the english law bonds.
This propaganda if you had any brain at all you will not invest in Spanish bonds and watch it play out this time. But then there is a sucker born every minute.
Check is in the mail.
I must have this wrong. Everybody is talkin' about the ESM like it is a done deal that is gonna happen Real Soon Now, but my understanding is that Germany (cough) has not approved the ESM yet.
And there is some rumbling they may not approve it.
Anybody?
Yes: "German Opposition Threatens To Scuttle ESM, And Spanish Bailout, Ratification"
Thanks, don't know how I missed that particular article - busy this morning.
Thanks again Tyler for allowing me in the house...
(Two pair of black pants, two black shirts, one pair black boots and $300 burial expenses.)
Guys dont get fooled. This is a LIE.
Remember Greek bailouts are under ESFS and they werent senior to privately held debt till DAYS before the PSI.
The fact is the ESFS and ESM cant afford a jump in rates forcing Spain and Italy to accept full bailouts of their deficit spending.
But Germany and the ECB cant afford to take PSI. NOR should they. These are DIP financings of bankrupt entities.
China would do the same to the US (demand seniority for new debt) EXCEPT US Fed can monetize (buy the debt) driving inflationary riots in China, the Senate can retaliate with trade embargoes and our millitary could whoop China. None of this is true for Spain and Italy vs Germany and the rest of Europe.
Soprivately held debt WILL be subordinated to ALL ECB/ESFS/ESM debt regardless of what they say today.
Tyler,
from the treaty text:
In the event of ESM financial assistance in the form of ESM loans following a European financial assistance programme existing at the time of the signature of this Treaty, the ESM will enjoy the same seniority as all other loans and obligations of the beneficiary ESM Member, with the exception of the IMF loans.
(Caugh Germany has not approved yet, caugh)
Have you heard the one about the Currency Union that walked into a bar??
(everyone fell about laughing..)
Btw English law bonds will all be gone by end of week. The smart funds were buying LAST 2-3 weeks after Greece paid theirs out.
These geniuses don't realise what an incredibly bad structure the ESM is. The ESM is unusable for any core European country because once its used, yields will spike to unmanageable proportions, creating a downward spiral that only pure monetization could (temporarily) forestall.
You got that right, and it seems pretty obvious to most ZH'ers - so how the hell come 17 fin mins in the EU can't figure this out? Seems there are three possibilities here:
1. The fin mins are arrogant, clueless, ivory tower appointed career politician/economists with a futurity quotient of zero, or
2. The fin mins are old money rich Eurocrats who have theirs, screw you, just puttin' in time till retirement meanwhile let's have lunch, or
3. The fin mins are part of a really, really brilliant cabal that is actually planning all this, and knows that ESM loans that subordinate soverign debt will more rapidly lead to the one world, or at least one Euro, gubernmint.
I honestly don't know which is closest to the truth, or reality, or whatever that is going down in Europe right now. The whole Spailout seems to be so poorly thought out and generally half-assed as to boogle the mind - basically DOA, yet all these financial ministers from the major European countries went for it. WTF? I may be catching up to Cognitive Dissonance (best handle in the place). Could be that not understanding WTF is going on is the start of understanding WTF is going on: - maybe, just maybe, none of these so-called deciders has a god damned clue and they are all just winging it - badly.
But I'm probably wrong about all of this.
So in other words: Gold is the muther fucking kingpin, top shelf, bad ass, harden the fuck up, widow maker, big willy, head honcho, numero uno, piece de resistance, mac daddy, real asset of first, second, and last and only resort now and into the future for all fucking eternity.