Why is greece in a debt crisis?
Im trying to finish homework, its late, help me out? Explain this is simple terms.
Also answer theses:
What is the impact of this crisis on America?
What are some arguements about this topic?
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Sorry to answer this question late.
Here is a link to an article in the FT today which will give you the answer about Greece:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a0574c54-046e-11df-8603-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=2b8f1fea-e570-11de-81b4-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1
The problems in Greece are slightly different from countries such as the USA and UK in that these countries are suffering from banking/financial institution losses which have precipated a shortage of liquidity worldwide. Greece has been overspending on its public sector and the worries are that it can not now service that debt because of the economic downturn generally and shortage of capital in the global economy -i.e. it can’t borrow any more. So, in many ways Greece is collateral damage in the financial crisis.
If you look at the Ft article-there is comment that Greece has been fudging its figures- so has everyone else. The losses still in the banking mess have still not been fully accounted for (some estimates suggest that only 50% has been acknowledged). So a lot of countries are in an even worse situation but have buried their heads.
Incidentally, there is great fear in the UK that our sovereign debt will be downgraded by the rating agencies – that’s really bad. It’s just slow release of information -that’s all.
Did the U.S. allow any latin country to repay them through printing money during the latin america debt crisis?
The debt was denominated in US dollars. Any money in the local currency would have to be converted into USD first. Printing money would be counterproductive in that case as it would lead to inflation, meaning that the money would buy fewer dollars and do less to service the debt.
How is the current financial crisis affecting the American citizens?
How is the current financial crisis affecting the American citizens?\
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The current financial crisis is affecting the American citizens in many ways. For example, the american citizens are not buying decorative & fancy items now. Because they are concentrating on the basic needs. If you need 50 dollars weekly & if you get around 45 dollars what will you do? The American citizens are doing the same now. Even America has been a big economifallenngth for the world, but now they are not at a position to be as strong enough. Because weakness makes negative on mind. Does not matter it is temporary or long term. So, now American citizens are thinking themself weaker than before.
Wilbur Ross Discusses Greek Financial Crisis, IMF Aid: Video
April 8 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, chairman and chief executive officer of WL Ross & Co., talks with Bloomberg Television about the Greek financial crisis. (This report is an excerpt from the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)
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Do you believe the economic collapse we just experienced is over?
Do you think another worse collapse is imminent. Is the 15million dollar per second interest payout on our loans to China, Saudi Arabia going to sustain forever? Is the frivilous printing of money by Obamonomics going to hold our heads above water for long. Are
you optomistics or are we in trouble?
This is a debt-collapse Depression (aka balance sheet depression). It is caused by too many people spending money they did not have – taking on debt. Epitomized by a government spending money it does not have and its taxpayers do not have.
Depressions unfold in phases and stages. We have only seen the first leg down, and the first bear market rally. We have a long way to go. It will continue deteriorating until the debts are paid off and the balance sheets rebuilt. BO & Company have done exactly the wrong things, and are making matters worse, and prolonging the pain. They have more than doubled the US’s total liabilities from about $54 Trillion to $110-120 Trillion since 1/20/09, just 6+ months ago.
From the 1929 Crash until the stock market returned to its previous record in 1954, it took 25 years. The Depression itself lasted from 1930 until 1946, after the war ended. This is the Greater Depression since there is so much more debt involved.
And those "green shoots" are just some reused piece of Astroturf flung out the window in front of the sheeple in hopes they will "believe" in the "change." But nobody who is paying the slightest bit of attention to what is going on believes these "changes" are of the slightest benefit to anyone but BO’s campaign contributors.
$78.8 Trillion; United States Debt Obligations exceed world GDP; Monetary Collapse Looming?
How in the world are we going to pay off all of this debt? Raising taxes to do it would burden our economy, and then the situation would only get worse. To me the solution is obvious, cut spending.
For too long in this country we’ve had the give-me-stuff people standing there with their hand out, and the government putting something in it. Does the idea of small government ring a bell? It is what our founding Fathers had in mind when they gave us our constitution. That is why there is a list in the constitution that quite clearly spells out the powers of the federal government, and also what it is not allowed to do. So basically if it was not listed as a power, then they are to stay away from it, and allow the States to handle it.
Just take a look at federal laws. At the very beginning they will state their authority in enacting the law, and it is almost always the commerce clause. I’m sure they even think that just because your computer is hooked up to the internet, and therefore has contact with other computers in other States, that they then would have the constitutional right of regulating your computer, and thereby your internet communications; they are out of control.
jbranstetter04
Federal obligations exceed world GDP
Does $65.5 trillion terrify anyone yet?
As the Obama administration pushes through Congress its $800 billion deficit-spending economic stimulus plan, the American public is largely unaware that the true deficit of the federal government already is measured in trillions of dollars, and in fact its $65.5 trillion in total obligations exceeds the gross domestic product of the world.
The total U.S. obligations, including Social Security and Medicare benefits to be paid in the future, effectively have placed the U.S. government in bankruptcy, even before new continuing social welfare obligation embedded in the massive spending plan are taken into account.
The real 2008 federal budget deficit was $5.1 trillion, not the $455 billion previously reported by the Congressional Budget Office, according to the “2008 Financial Report of the United States Government” as released by the U.S. Department of Treasury.
The difference between the $455 billion “official” budget deficit numbers and the $5.1 trillion budget deficit cited by “2008 Financial Report of the United States Government” is that the official budget deficit is calculated on a cash basis, where all tax receipts, including Social Security tax receipts, are used to pay government liabilities as they occur.
But the numbers in the 2008 report are calculated on a GAAP basis (“Generally Accepted Accounting
Practices”) that include year-for-year changes in the net present value of unfunded liabilities in social insurance programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
Under cash accounting, the government makes no provision for future Social Security and Medicare benefits in the year in which those benefits accrue.
“As bad as 2008 was, the $455 billion budget deficit on a cash basis and the $5.1 trillion federal budget deficit on a GAAP accounting basis does not reflect any significant money [from] the financial bailout or Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, which was approved after the close of the fiscal year,” economist John Williams, who publishes the Internet website Shadow Government Statistics, told WND.
“The Congressional Budget Office estimated the fiscal year 2009 budget deficit as being $1.2 trillion on a cash basis and that was before taking into consideration the full costs of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, before the cost of the Obama nearly $800 billion economic stimulus plan, or the cost of the second $350 billion in TARP funds, as well as all current bailouts being contemplated by the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve,” he said.
“The federal government’s deficit is hemorrhaging at a pace which threatens the viability of the financial system,” Williams added. “The popularly reported 2009 [deficit] will clearly exceed $2 trillion on a cash basis and that full amount has to be funded by Treasury borrowing.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88851
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