{"id":1371,"date":"2011-10-17T12:49:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T16:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2011-10-17T12:49:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T16:49:44","slug":"a-leveraged-efsf-is-pure-poison-telegraph-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/17\/a-leveraged-efsf-is-pure-poison-telegraph-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"A leveraged EFSF is pure poison \u2013 Telegraph Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Europe\u2019s leaders do indeed leverage their \u20ac440bn bail-out fund (EFSF) to \u20ac2 trillion or \u20ac3 trillion through some form of &#8220;first loss&#8221; insurance on Club Med bonds \u2013 as markets now seem to assume \u2013 the consequences will be swift and brutal.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Ansgar Belke, from Berlin&#8217;s DIW Institute, said any leveraging of the EFSF would be &#8220;poisonous&#8221; for France\u2019s AAA rating and would set off an uncontrollable chain of events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It counteracts all efforts made so far to stabilize the eurozone debt crisis, which are premised on the AAA rating of a sufficiently large number of strong economies. In extremis, it would probably cause the break-up of the eurozone&#8221;, he told Handlesblatt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..Dr Belke said France is already under pressure. BNP Paribas, Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale, Cr\u00e9dit Agricole may need \u20ac20bn in fresh capital, with knock-on risk for the French state. He warned that France\u2019s public debt (Now 82pc of GDP) would shoot up to 90pc of GDP if the debt crisis rumbles on. Variants of this theme were picked up by other German economists in a Handelsblatt forum.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/ambroseevans-pritchard\/100012681\/a-leveraged-efsf-is-pure-poison\/\">A leveraged EFSF is pure poison \u2013 Telegraph Blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Europe\u2019s leaders do indeed leverage their \u20ac440bn bail-out fund (EFSF) to \u20ac2 trillion or \u20ac3 trillion through some form of &#8220;first loss&#8221; insurance on Club Med bonds \u2013 as markets now seem to assume \u2013 the consequences will be swift and brutal. 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