{"id":523351,"date":"2010-04-11T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/newsflash-theres-still-no-greece-bailout-just-a-big-heaping-of-moral-hazard-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-11T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T19:01:00","slug":"newsflash-theres-still-no-greece-bailout-just-a-big-heaping-of-moral-hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523351","title":{"rendered":"NEWSFLASH: There’s Still No Greece Bailout, Just A Big Heaping Of Moral Hazard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The European Commission has done a very weird thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It has explicitly announced that Greece has an implicit guarantee of all its debt.<\/p>\n

Despite what you may have read, Greece hasn’t technically been bailed out yet. Instead, EU finance ministers, along with the IMF have announced most of the terms of a bail out, should a bail out be needed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why would Greece need a bail out? That’s not clear, but presumably it would require some kind of failed auction or default.<\/p>\n

Why would Greece have a failed auction? That’s not clear either — after all, why would you not<\/em> lend to Greece, knowing that the terms of its bailout have already been announced.<\/p>\n

Basically the EU and the IMF hope they can jawbone a bailout without actually having to pay anything out.<\/p>\n

It might work.<\/p>\n

It’s not wildly different than what the Treasury did the dark days of our financial crisis, except that in addition to implicitly promising that there would never be a nationalization of any major bank — that, not default was the big fear — the US central bank printed mad amounts of money so that it could brute force return the banks to financial health.<\/p>\n

The ECB has no such brute force mechanism at its disposal. Greece’s only path to health will involve an economic rebound, slashing spending and raising taxes (painful).<\/p>\n

As for the details themselves, the country will get about $40 billion, two-thirds of which will come from the ECB, and one-third from the IMF.<\/p>\n

If it’s needed.<\/p>\n

Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n

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