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The outline of a large and ambitious eurozone rescue plan is taking shape, reports from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington suggest.
It is expected to involve a 50% write-down of Greece's massive government debt, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston says.
The plan also envisages an increase in the size of the eurozone bailout fund to 2 trillion euros (£1.7tn; $2.7tn).
But he adds that the price of failure could be a financial crisis that would probably turn anemic growth into a recession or worse.
It is also thought that private investors in Greek debt are likely to have to accept a 50% reduction in what they are owed, our editor says.
Publicly, world leaders have said there is "no plan" for a Greek default, but reports suggest officials are working on a plan to allow Greece to default on some of its debts and remain in the euro.
Originally posted by DangerDeath
Eurozone rescue plan 'emerging' as IMF and Greece talk
The outline of a large and ambitious eurozone rescue plan is taking shape, reports from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington suggest.
It is expected to involve a 50% write-down of Greece's massive government debt, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston says.
The plan also envisages an increase in the size of the eurozone bailout fund to 2 trillion euros (£1.7tn; $2.7tn).
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So they gonna write it off
And doing it will cost 2 trillion euros.
But he adds that the price of failure could be a financial crisis that would probably turn anemic growth into a recession or worse.
This is the reason European markets rallied after an initial drop.
ECB is taking over...
It is also thought that private investors in Greek debt are likely to have to accept a 50% reduction in what they are owed, our editor says.
Venizelos has nailed them down!
Publicly, world leaders have said there is "no plan" for a Greek default, but reports suggest officials are working on a plan to allow Greece to default on some of its debts and remain in the euro.
What a joke! They raise the price from just under $2. to over $4. then decrease it to $3.50 for their psycological games, so the American people will accept the new price. We need to find an alternative to gas autos that's affordable to everyone. Diesel cars would decrease our need by 25%, but Am... more
Originally posted by marg6043
reply to post by DangerDeath
Didn't you read my early post, the markets are running on "hopes" this due to a "promise" of a bailout, where the money will come from? well 1 trillion from the Fed that you or me do not need to know about it because is not our business and 1 trillion from the EU countries.
That is how it works when the US have the most to lose if the EU goes down.
•This is really about saving the banks by financially raping the sheeple. Of course, the Illuminists will never put it truthfully. They will promote a massive amount of fear: the Euro will collapse if you don’t save the banks. I say let the Euro collapse and all 17 countries go back to their own currencies. The Euro is a deeply flawed currency and is set up for failure from day 1. It is all about engineering a massive crisis to gain more power and control and the destruction of sovereignties. This €2 Trillion Fund will not work. Where is the money going to come from when every single nation is deep in debt? It is just a final financial rape of the taxpayer sheeple turning them into perpetual debt slaves! The Euro will definitely collapse!
This was bolstered by $60bn (£38.9bn) from the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism and $250bn from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Wind the clock forward and the sums talked about at the IMF in Washington over the weekend were almost three times that amount. After months of prevarication and political buck-passing European leaders have woken up to the fact that more money, action and structural change is required if the euro is to survive.
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Originally posted by marg6043
reply to post by DangerDeath
The thing is that this bailout of trillion of dollars already was done two times before, right after the 2008 crash and then in 2010, both times predicting that it was going to "fix the problem" guess what now three bailouts later it has done a darn thing.
So how many times the tax payers have to bailout this corrupted entities?
"We overshot on the upside when we went over $1,900," said the fund manager, who has 25 percent of his portfolio in gold [XAU= 1601.60 -55.43 (-3.35%) ].
"We're now close to bottoming at $1,500, and if that doesn't hold it could bottom to between $1,100-$1,200."
Faber, who said that the recent sell-off had come about following nervousness about industrial metals, added that a 40 percent correction wouldn't surprise him.
In an interview on BBC News this morning that left the hosts gob-smacked (google it... it is the BBC after all), Alessio Rastani outlines in a mere three-and-a-half-minutes what we all know and most ignore. While the whole interview is worth watching, the money shot for us was "This economic crisis is like a cancer, if you just wait and wait hoping it is going to go away, just like a cancer it is going to grow and it will be too late!". While he dreams of recessions, sees Goldman ruling the world, and urges people to prepare, it is hard to disagree with much of what he says and obviously interventions and machinations means we will have days like this (in Silver for instance), there is only one endgame here and we hope there is less hopeful euphoria (and more preparedness) as we pull back the curtain further an further.
The head of the IMF has warned that its $384bn (£248bn) war chest designed as an emergency bail-out fund is inadequate to deliver the scale of the support required by troubled states.
In a document distributed to the IMF steering committee at the weekend, Ms Lagarde said: "The fund's credibility, and hence effectiveness, rests on its perceived capacity to cope with worst-casescenarios. Our lending capacity of almost $400bn looks comfortable today, but pales in comparison with the potential financing needs of vulnerable countries and crisis bystanders."