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Greek Pudding

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Publié le 13 juillet 2015
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T he proof of the pudding is in the eating, the old saw goes. This one, alas, is a mélange of several old shit sandwiches bound in liaison of subterfuge and seasoned with political absurdities. Having been fooled in this bistro before, citizen-patrons leave the table resigned to yet another bout of food poisoning as the music of universal upchuck rings across the European Union from Helsinki to Lisbon

What is on display more brightly and clearly than ever, though, is the utter fakery of international banking. The players have lost faith in their own shenanigans. They simply go through the motions now awaiting the political fallout, which is to say the revolt of the people who can still do arithmetic. So, now Greece can supposedly expect another $90-equivalent in new loans on top of the $350-equivalent already racked up. That’s rich. The loan repayment schedule must look like a map of Middle Earth.

Most perplexing — especially for those on summer hiatus in which time seems to be suspended — is the fact that the rescue package will take weeks, perhaps months, to gin up while Greece is right now so utterly paralyzed in bankruptcy that no goods can move, no bills can be paid, and the economy cannot deliver the necessities of daily life. The old refrain, “your check is in the mail” may not be so reassuring to folks who haven’t eaten for three days. Personally, I would expect the gasoline bombs to be flying around Syntagma Square before the middle of the week.

Has anyone noticed the eerie paucity of news emanating from the other hard-luck nations of the EU, namely Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Ireland? The money hole that these deadbeats are in makes Greece look like a dimple in the sand. What, I wonder, is the message to them from the Greek negotiation melodrama? (Lend more money to real estate developers to build more houses and condos that will never be sold? That’ll work!) No, the entire EU debt fiasco harks back to the original meaning of “ring around the rosie” — a theme song of the Black Death. The eventual implosion of the European Union, and the banking system hugging its face vampire squid style, will be the financial equivalent of the Black Death. Kingdoms will fall and social systems will be turned upside down.

The agonizing wait for that outcome is obviously fraying the nerves of all concerned to the degree that all their exertions seem like little more than tragic and pointless exercises in futility — for instance, the terms arrived at in last weekend’s negotiations. Nobody has a shred of faith that they can or will be carried out. In effect, what they’ve done is put together a Potemkin framework allowing them to go just give up for a month or so and go on vacation.

That would, of course, set things up for a mighty financial convulsion in the autumn — history’s favorite season for ruin — when all the ministers and their factotums venture back to the dismal realities they left fermenting at the office. Of all the many things apt to happen, we can count at least on the current Greek government falling and a failure of Greece to make any gesture of repayment in their just-negotiated loan schedule. That would leave the “Troika” (the EU, the ECB, and the IMF) with zero credibility and initiate the epochal widespread repudiation of the entire EU loan structure — in short, the collapse of Europe.

That wouldn’t necessarily be the end of the world, but it would be the end of nearly seventy-year period of peace, prosperity, and stability. The sorting-out would be epic. The standard of living across Europe would sink to the level of the 1830s. The fundamentals of banking and currency would have to be rebuilt from ashes. More nations will break up into smaller units. Western intellectual life would suffer immense shock as all the certainties of the Enlightenment project seemed to go up in a vapor of insolvency and political upheaval. You have to even wonder whether Europe could defend itself against an onrushing Jihad.

But these are admittedly gloomy thoughts for a morning so early in summer. Myself, I’m going to shop for an outfit to wear to Diddy’s annual party in the Hamptons. Coonskin caps may be oddly coming back in style as people all over America try to emulate Donald Trump and the furry creature that lives on the top of his head. Something tells me that the ladies will not be buying many Hillary-style pantsuits. Wouldn’t it be cunning if Diddy’s caterer came up with something like miniature Greek Pudding bites? That would bring a real frisson to the doings, something to chat about besides the marketing genius of Kim Kardashian.

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Mr. Kunstler I am most definitely on the same page as you regarding this financial mess not only in Europe but the entire world! However the last paragraph of this article had me busting a gut! thank you.
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Your article clearly articulates, with the usual entertainment, yet another installment of the failures of central banking.!!

For some time now, I've watched the obvious and total manipulation of the derivative precious metals markets with amazement (and some despair).

Yet the apparent manipulation of Alexis Tsipras over the weekend was a complete horror. No doubt the Germans managed not to leave any obvious marks on the body, but his capitulation, given the support of his constituency, was incomprehensible.

And how exactly does this news translate to stock markets going up the next day in Asia, Europe, and the US? Even assuming that these measures are accepted, never mind implemented, does any other government act as if MORE austerity is now better?
What are we doing in THIS country right now? Is it more austerity or more debt? Wasn't it austerity that supposedly prolonged our Great Depression? Isn't Mario Draghi engaged in huge quantitative easing? Why pick on Greece, who at worst only have their own invidious methods of quantitative easing.
We all should have thought about the benefits of a little austerity decades ago. Instead we repealed Glass -Steagal in 1999, and handed over our future to the banks.
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Mr. Kunstler I am most definitely on the same page as you regarding this financial mess not only in Europe but the entire world! However the last paragraph of this article had me busting a gut! thank you. Regards Dereck Dyason Lire la suite
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