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To: bruinbirdman
I've read that in addition to Greece the bonds of Portugal,Spain,Italy and Ireland are in big,big trouble.
3 posted on 04/27/2010 4:42:29 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
They are indeed. Spreads have widened to very close to 3rd-world levels for Greece and Portugal.

And the Maastricht Treaty won't be of any help. Bailouts of a member nation (EU/EMU) by other nations are expressly prohibited. Thus, the hotshots misrunning EU/EMU are looking for a way to bail out Greece (and soon, Portugal and Spain) w/o leaving their fingerprints on the machinations. The situation is SO dire that US long-date debt is being bid up as a 'flight to quality'. US debt? Quality??? Oh, puh-lease.

However, this fiasco has one positive effect: the demonstration to anyone with any functional brain cells that Lady Thatcher was **exactly** correct in her famed evaluation of socialism.

12 posted on 04/27/2010 6:05:22 PM PDT by SAJ (Zerobama? A phony and a prick, ergo a dildo.)
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