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- DE JAGER SAYS ITALY NEEDS TO TAKE EXTRA GOVERNANCE MEASURES
- GREEK BONDHOLDER LOSS WILL BE 60%, ANA CITES VERHOFSTADT SAYING
Liesman spin on how 60% losses is not a CDS trigger event coming in 10 minutes.
In the meantime it gets worse:
There was no also sign of a deal in negotiations to reduce Greece's debt to private sector bondholders, and uncertainties remained over the size of a planned bank recapitalization and the scope of leveraging of the rescue fund.
And here comes the early damage control from Reuters:
Euro zone summit likely to give few numbers on crisis response
Euro zone leaders are unlikely to provide many hard numbers to flesh out their debt crisis response at a summit on Wednesday because the size of banks' losses on Greek bonds is still under negotiation and the bigger firepower of the bailout fund is tough to quantify, euro zone officials said.
Euro zone leaders may not be ready to name the exact size of the "haircut" for investors on Greek debt, but may indicate the desired level -- thought to be between 50 and 60 percent -- by announcing the intended size of public sector help and the target for Greece's debt-to-GDP ratio in 2020, officials said.
Leaders of the 17 countries using the euro meet on Wednesday evening to try to agree on a comprehensive response to the escalating sovereign debt crisis. The response is expected to include a plan to recapitalise banks, boost the firepower of the EFSF bailout fund and a new financing package for Greece.
But there are already doubts that concrete steps, including clear and hard numbers on the level of bank recapitalisation and the leverage of the EFSF, will be agreed.
Talks with private investors holding Greek paper on what losses they would be prepared to accept on a voluntary basis to make Greek debt sustainable are still under way.
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strange... Verhofstadt said yesterday that there won't be any credit event in the future whatsoever because we're just so well organised....
"Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.
Gird your loins, we’re gonna win with your help, God willing, we’re gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride. This president, the next president, is gonna be left with the most significant task. It’s like cleaning the Augean stables, man. This is more than just, this is more than – think about it, literally, think about it – this is more than just a capital crisis, this is more than just markets. This is a systemic problem we have with this economy." ~ Joe Biden, October 2008
Joe Biden went Full Retard before it was fashionable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTlGWrssxGw
nah; the dude spoke the truth. People are so unaccustomed to hearing the truth that when it's spoken, it is so far disconnected from the mythic narrative that it sounds like full retard.
I am going to say it again: in a growth economy, driven by power (not total reserves, RATE of production), when the rate of energy input begins to decrease, the entire edifice becomes imperiled as a fundamental institution. Everything we try that does not address this fundamental problem will fail.
Imagine you were facing a situation where gravity was increasing and you were in the business of lifting things. Would you expect monetary measures, cheapening of credit, pretend accounting, etc., to FIX this? No...it's a fundamental problem of reality, which to be blunt is something that society has been sorely disconnected from for quite a long time.
Unabated Oil supply growth (and other energy before that) for 150 years has permitted silly and stupid fantasy shit like macroeconomics to be accepted as real. The entire American Narrative is utter bullshit; our exceptionalism was driven by a climate of innovation built on the oil supply capable of supporting it. Take away our oil growth, like in 1970, and then again in 2006 and we look utterly incompetent and inept.
Raygun made Saudi Arabia the 51st state in the early 80s. It was either that or collapse.
The catastrophe will start with Italy with Spain right behind. Our tell is the QE chatter. They see it coming and are concerned. We'll see if Super Mario has some tricks up his sleeve.
Global currency devaluation looms.
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"CDS trigger event"
Sounds like that is the bottom line. Central Banks will print fiat currency to the point of starving poor people to death to prevent a "CDS trigger event"???
Even if they begin printing, I really don't see a market collapse as avoidable at this point... We know now with absolute certainty that printing is a temporary solution... I mean seriously, what are they going to do just keep printing and printing until hyperinflation occurs and there is a full on global revolution?... I'd imagine the Fed at this point knows that the markets will have to seriously collapse before QE3 is accepted...
in a nutshell: yes
this as long as the MegaBanks use the CDS and other derivatives constructs to tie each other with chains and explosives
BAN CDS (Again)
They will try very very hard not to make it an event...because if it is...its over I think...Western worldwide banking is over....another Paulson weekend moment...squared...btw....gold and silver could go up $500 and 50 easy in a week...
The 2% appreciation limit on gold by the banksters is on display right now; watch the manipulation in real time.
Thinking the same thing. The story is unfolding in the gold price.
The netflix plunge will play out in many other assets. Whoosh in specific names and countries and not all obvious, but the bubblier most likely.
One question: how long before Italian youths are taking photos with Berlusconi's corpse?
Just sayin'
Ancora, Mussolini? (trans. - Once again, Mussolini?)
Berlusconi government collapsing. Right wing coalition partner Lega Nord against pension reforms. They want new parliament elections. Without "reforms" Italy can't tap bailout funds. So either Italy or Berlusconi is toast.
http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article13679890/Berlusconis-Koalition...
'So either Italy or Berlusconi is toast.'
So... what you're saying is Italy is toast?
If I'm a bank and I bought CDS, I say, screw the voluntary haircut. Pay me my CDS insurance.
I wonder what the CDS insurance will pay off in...Italian hookers?
Exactly.
And the only reason you wouldn't push for it is because of political/monetary institution pressure.
You might be AOK.
But others may be close to outright bankruptcy.
So you might be negotiating for a back-door settlement.
Except, now that Glass-Steagal is gone, the CDS buyer-seller are the same animal (different set of books) and instead of distributing risk throughout the market, it has amplified it.
60% haircut CDS trigger event....BULLISH dammit!!
60% Greek haircut WAY TOO LOW. 90% more like it just to get into the Italian danger zone...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sovereign_credit_default_swaps.png
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And yet the Euro caught a bid at down 35 pips. Shorts are playing against central banks/Euro repatriation here. I learned a lot trading in 2008 that has helped me lately. If you are short you are fighting against a cornered and desperate opponent...they are fighting for their privileged life, their kids private schools, their wives' memberships in the right clubs. their 21 yo mistress they pay rent for, the BMW lease, everything. Once I lost a ton of money in '08 I realized that you are fighting a dangerous, wounded rat.
Its all polishing brass on the Titanic, its going down.
Well, yeah.... Shorting is a tool, not a way of life- use the tool when it works, ditch it when it doesn't- that's why it's called trading.... Can't turn a short into an investment, physically impossible.
Would somebody PLEASE turn off that damn fan? All of that smelly brown stuff is getting in the way of my sports highlights viewing!
We're a whole lot closer to the "Wile E. Coyote" moment than I think anybody realizes. One day, we'll wake up (perhaps), and everything will have come to a complete stop.
That's the way I've always seen this "second part" of the ecomomic crisis playing out. and that's the way it's lining up to play out.
Thats what will happen one of these mornings....all the 'traders' will get up and turn on their computers to see what futures are doing and get a banner that simply says 'World markets are suspended until further notice, all your accounts are belongs to us'.
That "Stop" will be the "over the falls" moment when everything falls into the hands of those who designed these very events.
If I were in Greece, I'd be cashing out my deposits today ANYWAY.
Screw the summit, I want liquidity I can hold in my hot, hairy little palms, and spend across the border if necessary!
Argentina and Brazil have already shown what happens in situations such as these, when deflation takes hold and can't be stopped.
Greece is a case of DEFLATION and people are scared to death of losing everything that they have. And the "only way out" is seen as printing and re-drachmafying. Think about that.
The system cannot be sustained when everyone is heading for the exits, so they LOCK the doors and then they devalue. If stampedes out are permitted, the sovereign itself goes kaput and NOBODY WANTS TO HOLD notes of a sovereign going kaput.
Iceland deflated and the krona did not become more worthful. The same was true of every EM country that bubbled and crashed. Was a case of mass stampedes OUT of local debt, and then the realization that you needed to get out of local currency as well. People cash out of positions and then they cash out of cash.
A 60% "haircut" on Greek debt, given that the ECB and IMF want to remain exempt, might only offer a 30% real cut in the stock of debt.
Completely unsustainable.
The ongoing deficit remains.
Who will fund that?
Next rumor:
Until US debt service is greater than tax revenues there will always be Uncle Sam's deep pocket for all to steal from.
I do not know where you get your information from, but it already has. Total US Debt is $54,548,789,321,051 and counting (not inclusive of unfunded liabilities of $116,108,119,074,586.00 and counting). Total US Tax revenue is: $2,289,729,211.00 and increasing much slower than debt/unfunded liabilities. Source: USDebtclock.org. The US reach has exceeded it's grasp. Oh, sure, The Bernakio and his insane Fed Posse can print to infinity, but that is a WHOLE different can of worms, with a big red label called "Hyperinflation". Can you say Zimbabwe? The US is broke as a joke.
We're 100% debt/GDP, right now....and anyone who still believes we have a $15 trillion GDP has got to have bananas for brains!
Debt Service (e.g. the amount of interest paid on the debt) and Debt are two different things.
Being broke never stopped the Zimbabwe presses.
I'm still amazed that the banks will be taking any losses at all, nevermind 60%.
Shave and a Haircut, Today.
Step right up banksters for your 60% crew cut at the guillotine! We guarantee the CLOSEST shave, or your CDS back!
You're right, we should check in on the SHVC (the shave and a haircut index).
2 bits == 112.75 grains == .235 toz == $7.58
They have given up on the nuclear option. Now only the thermonuclear option left.
Why are they holding this summit tomorrow?
There is no agreement to agree because terms still NOT agreeable.
And they are NEVER going to be agreeable.
But hope is a strategy right?
It's to set a definite date to convene again to ratify a plan to make a plan.
And then to produce a report.
Any questions?
"LIES"man also stated that he had a source higher up in the EU that told him the lower level guy who said the meeting was canceled was wrong. It is still on according to LIESman. You would think collapse in the Eurozone would make him happy, then there would be QE3 with LSAP. What joke, every time bad news comes out LIESman gets out his turd polish and goes to work.
Anyone know the status of these bonds vis a vis any collective action clauses?
i.e. can vultures demand full payment and refuse to participate in debt exchange or other solutions? (soon to be ruled impossible by ESM...tick tock)
It's painful when the Placebo Effect wears off...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo ... and the medicine available isn't really available. Psychologically, I think the market is just about there. The encouraging comments, in other words, are no longer propping up the patient. Heading back to the bottom of this trading range. (fartz)
Oh, and bear flag patterns setting up on hourly charts everywhere you look. Soon to be actualized... (fartz)
Liesman, ha, is there a bigger douche on television right now?
This guy is so fucking full of himself, he thinks he is so fucking smart, but just listen to him--a complete fool.
Fully agree Cone - sick of him and the CNBC "rock and role" again -anyone for another station called Zero Hedge?
He got a mens room key from TPTB for the circle jerks so he thinks he's hot shit.
all Greek Bond holders should have their Heads cut off
anyone holding CDS should be shot like Gadaffi
especially if they are called Goldman Sachs
Goldman shacks up in a sewer conduit in Athens...lets hope they get him.
A credit event would expose the unthinkable.
It'll be smoke and mirrors untill the smoke kills us.
The additional joke as to what writedown level makes Greece "sustainable" is that sustainability for Greece requires that someone buy more debt to finance the Greek deficits of 10% of GDP. And do that for years.
Today at the atm I got some brand new shiny €10 bills with the letter Y on them (Greece) so all is well...
A new two headed Borgia rules over the probable demise of Eurozone as did the original model over that of papal hegemony.
Bad constructs lead to worse destructs. The 'miracle' will be the haircutted fate of Greece. Meager toast on which the Oligarchs will earn their additional downgraded gravy. Lets hope by at least 60%...let the banks burn in purgatory.
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