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“Greece has to be bankrupt” - investment advisor

Published: 26 March, 2010, 01:51
Edited: 27 March, 2010, 15:49

Greece, Athens: A protesting firefighter holds a red flare in central Athens on March 23, 2010, duruing their protest march against government's austerity measures. (AFP Photo / Louisa Gouliamaki)

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Diplomats at an EU summit in Brussels say Germany has backed away from its strong opposition towards bailing out Greece, which had sent the common currency to a ten month low against the dollar.

The agreement, hammered out between Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, would allow Eurozone countries to offer Greece bilateral loans.

The International Monetary Fund would also be involved, providing additional support in exchange for fiscal reforms in Athens.

The EU diplomats have agreed to a $30 billion bailout plan.

It would only be activated if market lending to the country dried up. EU President Herman Van Rompuy said it should be seen as a last resort.

In addition to the debt crisis in Greece, there are fears for Portugal after its credit rating was downgraded.

But as investment adviser Jim Rogers says, bailing out Greece or any other country would do more harm than good.

"Why should hard-working Germans and hard-working Dutch come to the rescue of the people who have been spending money they don't have and lying about it for years?" Rogers told RT.

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Martin Hennecke, an associate director with the Hong Kong based Tyche group, says as interest rate pressure rises and interest rates go up, the countries’ budget deficits will get a lot worse, and there will possibly be a vicious circle.

“The US is over 11 per cent in the budget deficit, the UK is 12.7 per cent – about the same as Greece – and then in Europe, most of the countries, even France, are at 8 per cent budget deficit of GDP and normally 3 per cent is the maximum considered sustainable. So, the crisis is not going to be fixed with Greece bailout,” he said.

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Meanwhile, William Engdahl, author of "Full Spectrum Dominance", says the roots of the euro's crisis lie in the US.

“Wall Street is really behind this whole Greek crisis from the beginning. Moody’s Rating Service – most people are unaware of this, but the world’s premier credit rating service that made the credit downgrade of Greece at the end of last year, it started this whole crisis,” William Engdahl said.

“The guards of money – Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley – what they want with this situation with Greece is to have a rolling crisis in ‘euro land’ that takes the focus away from the weakness of the dollar,” he added.

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Mart March 27, 2010, 15:36
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Pay its dues to who?...Boot out the speculators and vulture and create an economy based on added value NOT gambling which is basically what spectlating is GAMBLING. Let the president and politicans and bankers pay THEIR debt and leave the GREEK PEOPLE ALONE!

Akropolis March 26, 2010, 17:11
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this is what the greek prime minister said """ The Premier spoke of an unprecedented attack Greece came in for, stressing that the problem does not only affect Greece but the whole single currency union, as well. He reiterated that Greece will solve its problems on its own and it will pay its dues and that the only thing it has asked for is political support against speculators"""". A lot of thinks have been said in the media most of them have nothing to do with the truth,..... we are going to be all right,...

armen08 March 26, 2010, 07:00
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Why should the hard working Chinese bail out the free spending Americans? What has America to sell to the world except the useless, harmful, and ubiquitous Starbucks? What happened to the prime industrial country of the 20th century? It spent its way to bankruptcy and took the whole world down with it. But the world is adamant on having no more of the American bubble economy. The moment of truth is approaching just as it has come for Greece. The answer is production and export. Can the Greeks do it? Rather, will the more developed countries of the EU-- teetering on the brink of bankruptcy themselves--give her a chance to do it? Capitalism is having a field day while approaching the end its history. It is ugly and it's going to get uglier.