Men altså, i EU (talking Tyskland og Frankrike) så var noe av de involverte bankene faktisk too big to fall. Og å gjøre det hele til en ren Hellaskrise, blir småsært. EU har en krise, og Hellas er ikke det eneste landet som er råka.
«So European banks’ asset footprints (loans and other assets) expanded massively throughout the first decade of the euro, especially into the European periphery. Indeed, according the
Bank of International Settlements, by 2010 when the crisis hit, French banks held the equivalent of nearly 465 billion euros in so-called impaired periphery assets, while German banks had 493 billion on their books. Only a small part of those impaired assets were Greek, and here’s the rub: Greece made up two percent of the eurozone in 2010, and Greece’s revised budget deficit that year was 15 percent of the country’s GDP—that’s 0.3 percent of the eurozone’s economy. In other words, the Greek deficit was a rounding error, not a reason to panic. Unless, of course, the folks holding Greek debts, those big banks in the eurozone core, had, over the prior decade, grown to twice the size (in terms of assets) of—and with operational leverage ratios (assets divided by liabilities) twice as high as—their “too big to fail” American counterparts,
which they had done. In such an over-levered world, if Greece defaulted, those banks would need to sell other similar sovereign assets to cover the losses. But all those sell contracts hitting the market at once would trigger a bank run throughout the bond markets of the eurozone that could
wipe out core European banks»
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/greece/2015-07-07/pain-athens
Også kunne vi ha snakket om hvordan lønningene i Tyskland er blitt holdt nede og dermed bidratt til det voldsomme Tyske overskuddet etc.
Ja, Hellas har et jævla problem med (den manglende) staten sin og bruken av penger, men det er ikke moren til all faenskap.
Tillegg: Og ingen jeg har lest sier at EUs problem er løst ved å løse Hellasproblemet (snevert forstått).
Tillegg II: Faen, mulig det har vært linket til før. (Kan dog leses igjen!)