2010-02-04 23:35:23
2009PIGs=1997Asia,
Long Live American Dollars!
Pax Americana-Chinois Empire!
This time, the wave started from Greece will flood all PIIGs (except for Ireland, thumbs up for Ireland) and then hit France and Germany.
THIS CRISIS WILL LAST FOR A WHILE. American hedge funds have started a final attack: let's feast the flesh of those PIGs!
Arguments:
1. Austria lent agressively to Eastern Europe--most are now European subprime loans. In Q4, 2008, the Lehman-induced global capital reflow back to USD results in a total collapse in the Eastern Europe. Austrian banks' problems have been covered up in the media.
Austrian banking crisis ignited the WWII and resulted in the German crash in 1932.
As Rumsfield said: there is known unknown, but there is lots of unknown unknown.... Remember butterfly theory?
2. If PIGs need to drop out, there will be a period of introduction of new currencies, as well as banking system switch. All PIGs nationals will want to keep their Greek/Spain/Italian Euros in German Euros. There will be massive capital flows into and out of the core nations.
The breakup of Euroland is really unimaginable process and ALL CORE NATIONS will experience dramatic increase in currency circulation and then dramatic decrease in currency circulation.
That will be THEIR MOST VULNERABLE PERIOD and Americans will not give them an easy breathe, unless Euro becomes a totally nonconvertible currency--which naturally will hit its reserve currency status.
3. Big unkown--keep in mind, many mid-east oil money is now in Euro. If they panic and withdraw, there will be huge capital outflow--very bad.
1997's Asia was full of cracks(trade inbalance, free capital flow, high-growth, real estate bubble, banking speculation) , today's PIGs have exactly all the symptoms. If I were George Soros, I would attack from ITS WEAKEST link. It was Thailand then, it is Greece now. Gradually, Asian/European banking money will also participate into this Fleecing.
The worse thing in Europe: unions are so strong that nobody wants to sacrifice for their own nation's fiscal balance. Greeks will go on strike, Portugals are in the process; Spaniards are the next.
Fiscal incredibility
+ Let-us-die-together-public-sector unions
+ Selfish German/Frenchmen who refused to help
+ an EU that's dysfunctional without a federal treasury function
+ Welfare payment dries up due to budget cuts
+ Unemployed restless young muslims who are appeased by the past welfare payment.
+ American/British strategiest & vulture hedge funds who are thirsty for the flesh and who failed to crack open China
= ?
I always believe that the death of Lehman was totally a conspiracy of Paulson and Bernanke. For Bernanke, ECB has been an annoying threat for years.
Let's wait and see whether my predictions are accurate or not.
但是中国是否能够从中捡到便宜我看未必。因为我们目前兴趣在国内,没有把手伸到人家的地盘里去。不过最近希腊来申请要求中国介入,可能反而是个介入的机会,没准一下就发现发力的杠杆。
老欧脱皮,中国的压力就会小了很多!
欧洲只能算大学生级,美国只能算中学生级。
72年乒乓外交,79年打越南,是那种情况,为了应付苏联的军事威胁,一定要和美国打开局面。包括79年的一些做法,也还是值得商榷的。比如为了和美国建交,放弃了坚持美国停止对台军售的底线--72年之所以没有建交的最大原因,就是毛主席、周总理坚持该底线。 放弃美国停止对台军售,是今天台湾问题的一大原因。 79年的情况,比72年更艰难么?
到85年形势完全不一样了,美国完全恢复元气,而苏联陷入阿富汗泥潭。但中国完全没有及时调整国际战略,继续和美国一边倒,导致89、90年以后的被动。
占上风的背景是财政破产,揭不开锅了。想象一下当时申请神舟项目时,决策层居然准备卖掉黄金储备了。真的快倾家荡产了。