David McWilliams: Why the markets would thank us for defaulting
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Did you notice something strange over the past two days about the financial markets? The European stock markets actually rallied on the rumour that Greece would be allowed a "ring-fenced" default.
Now consider this again because the 'official' position of the Irish and the European political elite is that any default on anything by anyone would be a disaster, leading to huge capital flight and massive financial carnage.
If this is true, how come markets in the past two days have given precisely the opposite signal?
According to the latest financial market move, default actually calms things down for investors. It seems that it makes sense to face up to the reality that a country like Greece -- or indeed a 'bank' like Anglo -- has no money and therefore must default. If you prevent this basic capitalist process from happening (whereby investors pay for their mistakes), you spook the entire system...
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