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European policy makers may need to stump up as much as 600 billion euros ($794 billion) in aid or buy government bonds if they are to stamp out the region’s spreading fiscal crisis, said economists at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc.
With Greece’s budget turmoil infecting markets from Rome to Madrid, economists are urging German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and other officials to come up with unprecedented measures.
Originally posted by order in chaos
The sovereign debt crisis that started in Greece is indeed looking like a tip of the iceberg. While Portugal's ratings were downgraded by S&P yesterday, today Spain joined the list of countries whose ratings were downgraded by the S&P ratings agency. Everyone, from the IMF chief to OECD head are saying that time is the most crucial factor in this crisis that threatens the financial stability of the entire Eurozone. However, this time around, bailouts worth hundreds of billions of dollars will not be easy to be approved as politicians of each European country, especially Germany are playing the game according to the public sentiment that vehemently opposes any kind of bailout package.
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Originally posted by alienesque
could this actually be an attack from the US to keep the dollar as the worlds currency?
seems to come at a very nice time for the dollar