Eastern Europe’s woes are not unmanageable. But they are not being managed. The result could be catastrophe
Contagion could happen in many ways. One is if depositors lose confidence that their savings are safe.
Another weak point is where shareholders take fright.
For now, the most likely source of contagion is collapsing currencies.
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The bill that could break up Europe
Economist – ?12 hours ago?
TUMBLING exchange rates, gaping current-account deficits, fearsome foreign-currency borrowings and nasty recessions: these sound like the ingredients of a …
Eastern Europe’s fall puts Continent on edge
Christian Science Monitor – ?8 hours ago?
Latvia’s collapse and the sinking East is hurting Western banks, and the ideals of unity. By Robert Marquand | Staff writer/ February 26, 2009 edition …
* EU’s Almunia defends EU measures for E.Europe
guardian.co.uk – ?11 hours ago?
By Marcin Grajewski and Boris Groendahl BRUSSELS/VIENNA, Feb 26 (Reuters) – The European Union defended its efforts to help emerging Europe before a summit …
Europe’s reluctant paymaster
Economist – ?12 hours ago?
AP ITS place on the map once worried its generals. Now Germany feels encircled by economic menace. To the east lie ex-communist economies suffering from …
The transnational circles of Europe’s hell
Globe and Mail – ?15 hours ago?
Everything is being stress-tested in this crisis. Europe, too. The weak points in the way the European Union has been put together, politically and …
E. Europe faces debt, currency woes
International Herald Tribune – ?18 hours ago?
AP Rich West European countries face a dilemma: how to help poorer, former communist eastern neighbors weather the financial crisis even as they are forced …
The Economic Crisis in Europe By Chuck Missler
Prophezine – ?11 hours ago?
By Chuck Missler After the Berlin Wall fell, the nations of Eastern Europe jumped on the new train of capitalism. They borrowed and built, borrowed and …
Stress tests for the eurozone
Times of Malta – ?20 hours ago?
The world’s youngest and second most important currency enters its second decade of existence with formidable challenges ahead of it. …
Eastern Europe crisis raises bailout risk
MSNBC – ?11 hours ago?
By VANESSA GERA WARSAW, Poland – After significant pain in the transition to capitalism, formerly communist Eastern Europe finally got its reward in recent …
Financial Times: Eastern European economies battered hard
Kyiv Post – ?19 hours ago?
This should have been a year of celebration in central and eastern Europe. It is 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell, the 10th anniversary of Nato’s …
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Matt:
Listen to the Obama Administration. If anything could be designed to spook investors it is Obamas words.
Every move into a financial institution turns the shares into junk value.
PS: Chuck Schummer caused a run on a Califiornia bank in July 2008. With everything that gone on since I often wonder if what he did was a push that didn’t work.