The ECB is threatening to cut liquidity off to banks and wreck financial mayhem in the event that Greece defaults or restructures its debt. This in spite of the fact that Greece is set to run out of cash on July 18th and is sliding into lawlessness because of the very austerity measures which the ECB is advocating yet more of.
The time has come to call the ECB’s bluff. The ECB has much more to lose by a default and by cutting off liquidity to banks than the people of Greece or Europe. It would mean the moment when the criminal actions of the ECB — which has been hiding 100s of billions of euros of worthless loans on its books to milk taxpayers — would become apparent to everyone and so spell the political end of the ECB chiefs and the public-sector Ponzi scheme they have been running with the euro currency.
A change to the ECB’s operational rule to authorise the bank to give liquidity directly to governments and banks at no interest and without booking a corresponding debt n the balance sheet is all that is needed to resolve this eurozone debt crisis. Once the ECB chiefs are removed, the rebooting of the eurozone economy could start immediately. The Greek and other governments could be given liquidity from the ECB directly to allow managed insolvencies and fund a Marshall Plan for economic growth.
ECB chiefs appear to be terrified of a Greek default for purely personal reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Jane Burgermeister