How the ESM now backstops the SRF
– First published by IREF Online –
Introduction
The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) will now be backstop-of-last-resort to the Eurozone banking system, in addition to backstopping the Eurozone member states and the currency itself. Its resources have not been increased, though, despite its credibility and firepower already hanging by a thread, […]
Daily Express headline
Eurozone unemployment is an average and disguises wide variations, with youth unemployment being unacceptably high in several Club Med countries.
That is the problem with making important policy decisions at several levels removed from economic units whose characteristics widely diverge.
The fact that this is the situation is a testament to the failure of Economic […]
I had an interview with John Butler on the state of creditworthiness amongst Eurozone governments and banks – not good!
With the Eurozone’s money supply shrinking for the first time since 2010, a banking expert has said Europe’s economy has been damaged by what he called “incoherent financial vandalism”.
Bob Lyddon also believes the situation is being exacerbated by members of the EU27, whom he claims have […]
My book, upon which all is based
After my presentation at the IES-IREF Summer School in Aix-en-Provence about the European Stability Mechanism and its dependency on France’s retaining its AA-rating, the French business website contrepoints.org asked me a series of follow up questions, and here are the answers in English.
Here is a link to the French […]
Collapsing Euro is riskier than ‘gambling on Bitcoin’
The Express reinforced my Comment piece themselves the following day:https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1800197/collapsing-euro-bitcoin-gambling-debtA leading economist has warned that the Euro is only being sustained because the credit rating agencies have not downgraded Germany yet.
Writing for Express.co.uk Bob Lyddon, has warned that investing in the currency is now less safe than “gambling on bitcoin” and other crypto currencies […]
Keeping the flag flying for the euro
This piece appeared as a Comment in the Daily Express. It is about the implications of the European Stability Mechanism being so weak, given that it is the main backing for the euro:https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1799489/EU-latest-news-euro-against-pound-euro-collapse
Digital currencies – bitcoin, stablecoin, Britcoin et al – makes your head spin. The spinning has helped […]
The Daily Express picked up on my article pubished through IREF about the European Stability Mechanism:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1797868/eurozone-euro-eu-france-credit-rating
The ESM’s firepower – to back the debts of Eurozone member states and thereby to act as the backstop for the currency itself – depends upon its having backers of sufficient size and with high enough credit ratings.
The credit rating […]
Bruges Group book summary
The Campaign for an Independent Britain published this piece that the UK’s debt is not larger than the EU’s as the Daily Telegraph had claimed, if the EU member states’ shadow debts and contingent liabilities are factored in:https://cibuk.org/eurozone-debt-dwarfs-that-of-the-uk/
My figures on the EU are drawfrom my book ‘The shadow liabilities of EU Member […]
As presented at the IES-IREF Summer University in Aix 20-22 July 2023
I made a presentation at the IES-IREF Summer University in Aix-en-Provence about an aspect of my book, ‘The shadow liabilities of EU Member States, and the threat they pose to global financial stability’.
The relevant aspect is the build-up of off-balance sheet financing through the […]