Euro 'Is A Bloody Doomsday Machine,' Mark Blythe, Brown University, Economics Professor Says

Via: Huffington Post

The unthinkable suddenly looks possible.

Bankers, governments and investors are preparing for Greece to stop using the euro as its currency, a move that could spread turmoil throughout the global financial system.

The worst case envisions governments defaulting on their debts, a run on European banks and a worldwide credit crunch reminiscent of the financial crisis in the fall of 2008.

A Greek election on Sunday will determine whether it happens. Syriza, a party opposed to the restrictions placed on Greece in exchange for a bailout from European neighbors, could do well.

If Syriza gains power and rejects the terms of the bailout, Greece could lose its lifeline, default on its debt and decide that it must print its own currency, the drachma, to stay afloat.

No one is sure how that would work because there is no mechanism in the European Union charter for a country’s leaving the euro. In the meantime, banks and investors have sketched out the ripple effects.

They think the path of a full-blown crisis would start in Greece, quickly move to the rest of Europe and then hit the U.S. Stocks and oil would plunge, the euro would sink against the U.S. dollar, and big banks would suffer losses on complex trades.

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You can, and I suggest you do; read Act 1, 2, and 3, HERE:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/15/euro-bloody-doomsday-machine_n_1599931.html?utm_hp_ref=business

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personal thought:

If it turns not to be Greece; then it will be Spain, or Italy, or Portugal, or . . .

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