Posted on 07/11/2010 7:34:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
FRANKFURT The sovereign debt crisis would seem to create worry enough for European banks, but there is another gathering threat that has not garnered as much notice: the trillions of dollars in short-term borrowing that institutions around the world must repay or roll over in the next two years.
The European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund have all recently warned of a looming crunch, especially in Europe, where banks have enough trouble raising money as it is.
Their concern is that banks hungry for refinancing will compete with governments which also must roll over huge sums for the bond markets favor. As a result, credit for business and consumers could become more costly and scarce, with unpleasant consequences for economic growth.
There is a cliff we are racing toward its huge, said Richard Barwell, an economist at Royal Bank of Scotland and formerly a senior economist at the Bank of England, Britains central bank. No one seems to be talking about it that much. But, he added, its of first-order importance for lending and output.
Banks worldwide owe nearly $5 trillion to bondholders and other creditors that will come due through 2012, according to estimates by the Bank for International Settlements. About $2.6 trillion of the liabilities are in Europe.
U.S. banks must refinance about $1.3 trillion through 2012. While that sum is nothing to scoff at, analysts seem most concerned about Europe because the banking system there is already weighed down by the sovereign debt crisis.
How banks will come up with the money is an open question.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Not to worry, the Obamasiah will bail them out.
2011 will probably be a very bad year, followed by a worse 2012. I hope I’m wrong.
The BIS says that under their shorter adopted maturity rate adjustment, the world has about $700 trillion in credit derivatives (probably something like the rollovers due for one or two years instead of 2-4 years conceptually). At short term financing at 1%, the rollovers will cost $7 trillion...nobody has it.
The unwinding of credit derivatives at all levels exceeds the world’s ability to pay the rollover fees, and the capability of bailouts has been exceeded...debt (money) must be printed. We know where that leads....inexorably.
It leads us to revolutions, unrest, wars, unemployment, mass migrations of populations.....?
Why do I suspect some backdoor, secretive deal will be made by the Federal Reserve to fund all these liabilities?
Our treasury is being raided and our children indentured, here. Not just children, grandchildren.
This is premeditated. Bye-bye United States and the dollar as world reserve currency. What will replace it will be to our distinct disadvantage, by design.
those crazy Mayans might be on to something..12/21/12
People will move to where they perceive conditions to be better than where they’re leaving. Reason has little to do with it.
The unwinding of credit derivatives at all levels exceeds the worlds ability to pay the rollover fees, and the capability of bailouts has been exceeded...debt (money) must be printed. We know where that leads....inexorably.
The nations of the world have it so long as everybody pretends to have it. It's not as if physical printing presses have to be fired up any more, and it's not as if the flood of currency fiction has to spill over into the "real" economy. We've been doing it ourselves for over two years now.
Sooner or later, though, some nation is going to stop going along to get along, and then the wheels will fall off in very short order. Look for a major sovereign default and then chaos. It could be years if the smoke and mirrors hold, or it could be next week.
The NY Times is pushing hard for massive Quantitative Easing on a scale that dwarfs 2007-2009.
Why?!
Because such massive spending would delay the onset of the symptoms from too much debt (e.g. deflation).
Of course, such massive spending would also make the future problem even worse, but that doesn’t matter to the NY Times...who is more concerned with keeping Democrats in power than in our long term economic health.
Since derivatives aren't debt, why does short term financing at 1% mean anyone owes $7 trillion?
The unwinding of credit derivatives at all levels exceeds the worlds ability to pay the rollover fees
Then it's good that they don't have rollover fees.
Good time to put all your investments/money in Canadian Equity Funds. Canadian banks are safe and Canadian Equity is even safer
You are not incorrect....
Hmmm...looks like you're right:
regresar a Mexico
This, and only this, is the reason why the IMF recently chided Obammie and his Commies for their reckless spending.
Since the US dollar is the lion share of the backing of the SDRs, they need a strong US dollar to give away to other nations.
We all know that they want the US dollar to crash and burn. But we also know that they want to control that crash so that it occurs in synch with it being replaced with a global currency.
Timing is everything.
I never realized there was so much money in the world with everyone owing something to everyone else. Maybe the world just needs an economic reset, just like in the Bible days. LOL
I wonder if it would actually be a good idea for a conservative to win the presidency in 2012. After all who the heck wants to be president when the big crash comes???
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