The Biggest Fire Sale In History Is Going On In Europe
The Daily Reckoning
BusinessInsider.com
3-25-2012
It’s going to be the biggest fire sale in history — and it begins in 2012.
Europe’s banking sector holds 2½ times as many assets as the U.S. banking sector. It’s huge. And it’s in big trouble. Europe’s banking sector needs cash — mountains of cash.
As a result, it will have to sell more than $1.8 trillion of assets, which will likely take a decade to work through. For perspective, it sold only $97 billion from 2003–10. “The list of asset sales is the longest I’ve seen in 10 years,” says Richard Thompson, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London. Knowing how these things work, the final tally could well be double that. The world has never seen anything this big before.
Where will the cash come from?
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