Athens Municipality Runs Out Of Cash; Suspends All Operations…(Coming To A City Near You!)
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
09/21/2012
Remember when we said cash flow is always more important than diluting the M2 (the Fed is great at the latter, powerless at the former)? Here’s why: The municipality of Acharnes in northern Athens has decided to suspend all of its operations after running out of money. The municipal council met on Thursday night and voted to stop providing anything other than basic services because of its inability to pay employees’ wages and regular expenses. In Nintendo Donkey Kong Game and Watch parlance: Game over.
“Acharnes Municipality will remain closed indefinitely, until the financial problem can be resolved,” the local authority said in a statement.
The municipality will operate with just skeleton staff, which trash will only be collected from outside schools.
Mayor Sotiris Douros is due to meet Interior Ministry officials on Friday to discuss the municipality’s problems.
He wants the government to reduce from 11.5 percent to 5.5 percent the interest rate on a loan to the municipality. Douros argues that the monthly loan repayments of 500,000 euro is to high.
Coming to an insolvent, cash free, Keynesian experimental abortion near you.
