PIIGS domino sa pohlo

Grécko malo deficit 13,6% HDP a ak nebude záchranná ruka MMF a EÚ, tak by sa asi potopí. Avšak toto je len začiatok padajúceho domina PIIGS. Portugalsko má deficit 9,3% HDP, Írsko 12%, Španielsko 11,4% a Taliansko 11,7%. Takže aká budúcnosť čaká EÚ a EURO? Mimochodom, ak "bohaté" Slovensko požičia "vraj výhodne" Grécku €300mil., koľko má ešte v zálohe pre ostatné krajiny? Alebo si vezme ďalšie pôžičky, aby mohlo požičiavať?

The European Union’s (EU) statistics agency has been combing through Greece’s books, and it just revised the country’s 2009 deficit tally up to a whopping 13.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product. Further revisions could send that even higher, to 14.1 percent.

I say that because Greece is far from alone.

Take another of the so-called “PIIGS” countries, Portugal.

The country’s GDP shrank 2.7 percent in 2009, the worst recession in more than six decades. The unemployment rate recently hit a 23-year high of 10.1 percent, while the budget deficit jumped to 9.3 percent of GDP. Total debt is more than 85 percent of GDP, the worst in 20 years.

Ireland? The budget deficit is almost 12 percent of GDP.

Italy? Its total debt load is on track to hit 11.7 percent of GDP.

Plus, Spain is battling a budget deficit of 11.4 percent of GDP.

Bottom line: Greece is just the first domino to fall. Many other European countries are next in line.

And the biggest domino of all is right here in the U.S.!

Článok: www.moneyandmarkets.com/greek-domino-topples-rest-of-the-piigs-next-38895?FIELD9=1

26.04.2010