Friday, September 16, 2011

Europe Could Return Us to the Fall of 2008

Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
WASHINGTON -- Europe's banking crisis -- and "crisis" is used advisedly -- tells us how much and how little has changed since the onset of global financial turmoil in September 2008. Then, people worried about the viability of major American banks, loaded with "toxic" mortgage-backed securities whose value was difficult to determine. Now, people worry about major European banks, loaded with government (aka "sovereign") bonds whose value is difficult to determine. We are flirting with another financial crisis not unlike the post-Lehman Brothers panic.This...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/09/15/europe_could_return_us_to_the_fall_of_2008_263597.html

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