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Greek ‘Drama’ Only in First Act, or ‘Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts’

Posted by Larry Doyle on April 6th, 2010 1:42 PM |

Prior reports that Greece’s financial problems are now in the rear view mirror are exceedingly premature.

As we navigate ‘across the pond,’ we learn that the Financial Times’ Wolfgang Munchau believes Greece Is Going to Default but Not This Year:

Greece will not only have to make an extremely large public sector deficit reduction effort but it will also have to do this under a condition of disinflation, and possibly deflation, which would push its nominal growth rate to negative levels during the adjustment period. That, in turn, would jeopardise the debt reduction programme of both the public and private sectors. Under those circumstances, there is no way that Greece could ever stabilise its debt-to-gross domestic product ratio, no matter how hard the government of George Papandreou tries.

To get out of this mess, one of five things will have to happen. (more…)

Goldman Sachs: ‘The Great Enabler’

Posted by Larry Doyle on February 17th, 2010 2:28 PM |

As more details are released about Goldman Sachs’ derivative transactions that allowed Greece to disguise its overall financial health, the question begs as to the integrity of this very storied Wall Street franchise. In short, I would define Goldman Sachs as ‘The Great Enabler.”

How did ‘The Great Enabler’ operate? Recall that Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein indicated a few months back that Goldman Sachs was doing “God’s work.” He failed to mention that the deity to which Goldman prayed bleeds green. Additionally, the prayer which Goldman offered was nothing more than ‘maximize revenues now, worry about problems later, and keep your mouth shut.’

For a peek inside Goldman’s prayer book, let’s review a recently released report from Bloomberg,  Goldman Sachs, Greece Didn’t Disclose Swap Contract:>>>> (more…)






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