The Template For How the Next Crisis Will Unfold
by Phoenix Capital Research
ZeroHedge.com
02/08/2015
Anyone looking to get their head around how the next round of the Crisis will look should consider what’s happening in Europe today.
Europe is ground zero for the whole debt bomb implosion, not because it has the most debt but because it’s politically and economically on the least sound footing.
Some 19 countries share the currency, all of them in varying degrees of socialism (the public sector accounts for roughly 1 in 3 employees in Germany’s allegedly “free market” economy), and varying shades of broke: even Germany a real Debt to GDP of over 200%.
In this regard, Europe gives the rest of us a front-row seat to learn how things will unfold when the real stuff hits the fan and the political and financial elite are at risk of losing their power and wealth.
We’ve been through this mess multiple times in the last three years. The most notable cases involved Spain and Cyprus. And the formula is as follows:
1) A problem first emerges.
2) Various political and financial officials state that the problem is contained and there’s nothing to worry about.
3) Months later, the market and mainstream media catch on… usually when the problem is already a massive crisis and a bank holiday needs to be declared.
4) Individual investors lose a LOT of money while the same folks who cause the problem A) are not fired, fined or jailed B) never come clean about the full scope of the problem and C) claim that they can solve the problem and have all the answers.
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