Eurozone Crisis
Greece is on the brink of meltdown due to spiraling debt, and the deficit crisis is continentally contagious. Last year, the International Monetary Fund bailed out Greece to the tune of 110 billion euros, contingent on the implementation of strict austerity measures. On the heels of this dramatic action came bailout packages for Ireland and Portugal. And the Greek tragedy is far from over as the debate over whether to accept debt-forgiveness conditions upended the government in Athens. Furthermore, other debt-laden European nations risk going under.
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Without bold action from the European Central Bank, it is difficult to see how the European periphery can avoid sinking ever deeper into economic recession in the months ahead.
The Euro area crisis offers many lessons for the United States as it seeks to control its debt.
You may have heard that the European Union is effectively banning olive-oil cruets and dipping bowls at restaurants.A look closer shows you something else about the nature of regulatory Leviathans. One EU official noted to the Telegraph, “It will seem bonkers that olive oil jugs must go while vinegar bottles or refillable wine jugs can stay.”
Here are the likely lessons future historians will draw from Cyprus's sorry experience in the euro.
How should the crisis in Cyprus have been handled differently, and what are its wider international repercussions going forward? This and other relevant questions will be addressed by our expert panel.
If ever one needed evidence that excessive money printing by the Federal Reserve and by the Bank of Japan was seriously distorting global market prices, all one need do is to look at the EUR 2 trillion Italian sovereign-debt market.
