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2015-07-21 — bbc.com
The transmission of money is being facilitated in the most basic way, but there is no creation of new credit; and this credit freeze is a major impediment to consumer spending, and - perhaps more importantly - will lead to many businesses going bust in the coming weeks and months.
... it is reasonable to assume that a stress test and asset quality review of Greek banks ordered by the European Central Bank - which as it happens has started today - will confirm in a couple of months that more-or-less all the capital held by Greek banks will be wiped out by future losses. That would mean the wipe out of an investment of €16bn made by the Greek state and €10bn made by private investors as recently as 2013. source article | permalink | discuss | subscribe by: | RSS | email Comments: Be the first to add a comment add a comment | go to forum thread Note: Comments may take a few minutes to show up on this page. If you go to the forum thread, however, you can see them immediately. |