Tag: Greek Financial Crisis

From late 2009, fears of a sovereign debt crisis developed among fiscally conservative investors concerning some European states, with the situation becoming particularly tense in early 2010. his included euro zone members Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal and also some EU countries outside the area.Iceland, the country which experienced the largest crisis in 2008 when its entire international banking system collapsed has emerged less affected by the sovereign debt crisis as the government was unable to bail the banks out. In the EU, especially in countries where sovereign debts have increased sharply due to bank bailouts, a crisis of confidence has emerged with the widening of bond yield spreads and risk insurance on credit default swaps between these countries and other EU members, most importantly Germany

Cut, Cap, and Balance

It did not take long to find a web site dedicated to it, www.cutcapbalancepledge.com The Pledge is very simple:

Cut – Substantial cuts in spending that will reduce the deficit next year and thereafter.
Cap – Enforceable spending caps that will put federal spending on a path to a balanced budget.
Balance – Congressional passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — but only if it includes both a spending limitation and a super-majority for raising taxes, in addition to balancing revenues and expenses.
I think the pledge is the common sense position for a solution to our nation’s budgetary and debt crisis. Left unchecked

U.S. Budget Deficit & Federal Debt

The issues and news surrounding the U.S. Deficit has been sort of like low-level background noise as ever since I was a child. However its size as a percentage of the Gross Domestic Product and the size of the interest payments on the debt as a percentage of the Federal Budget has been growing ever louder like the sounds of thunder on an ever approaching thunder-storm.

I thought I would to highlight a recent article on the topic by

A Few Thoughts on Greece

Later tonight the Greek parliament will vote on a five-year plan of budget cuts, tax raises and privatization in order to win a bailout package consisting of EU/IMF funds. While the prospects of the parliamentary vote, its expected passage, and the subsequent saving of the French banks, have somewhat calmed the markets; I am somewhat surprised how easily the market seems to