Is Europe in worse shape?

[SCcoug]

Looks like the EU could be in worse shape than the US.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/c...can-greed.html

[BlueK]

Originally Posted by SCcoug

Looks like the EU could be in worse shape than the US.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/c...can-greed.html

Europe is always in worse shape.

[8ballrollin]

It took a weekend to shatter the complacency of German finance minister Peer Steinbrück. Last Thursday he told us that the financial crisis was an "American problem", the fruit of Anglo-Saxon greed and inept regulation that would cost the United States its "superpower status". Pleas from US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson for a joint US-European rescue plan to halt the downward spiral were rebuffed as unnecessary.

By Monday, Mr Steinbrück was having to orchestrate Germany's biggest bank bail-out, putting together a €35 billion loan package to save Hypo Real Estate. By then Europe was "staring into the abyss," he admitted. Belgium faced worse. It had to nationalise Fortis (with Dutch help), a 300-year-old bastion of Flemish finance, followed a day later by a bail-out for Dexia (with French help).

Within hours they were all trumped by Dublin. The Irish government issued a blanket guarantee of the deposits and debts of its six largest lenders in the most radical bank bail-out since the Scandinavian rescues in the early 1990s. Then France upped the ante with a €300 billion pan-European lifeboat for the banks. The drama has exposed Europe's dark secret for all to see. EU banks took on even more debt leverage than their US counterparts, despite the tirades against ''le capitalisme sauvage'' of the Anglo-Saxons.

SU, it's time for you to take back your praise for these bastards. Anglo-Saxon greed indeed.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by 8ballrollin

SU, it's time for you to take back your praise for these bastards. Anglo-Saxon greed indeed.

Amen.

And to hell with Europe. That's their problem. The US will solve it's own and Europe should do the same.