Norway Buys Greek Debt as Sovereign Wealth Fund Sees No Default

Quote from Martinghoul:

That's right... On a time horizon meaningful to me, the Chinese don't make mistakes, because of the sheer size of their reserves. Whatever they do, that's the mkt. The mkt is always right. Hence my conclusion.

All this applies to govt debt.

They will make just one mistake that will cost them as much as they have earned so far or even more. The same that happens to speculators. Actually they have already made the mistake, it is the belief that they can maintain high growth by just exporting to others, investing the proceeds and spending little to educate and modernize their ancient culture. Sure ticket to disaster. All failed empires made similar mistakes. They placed way too much emphasis on making money and paid too little attention to their structural problem.
 
Quote from ASusilovic:

No need :

Business and household deposits in June fell for a sixth straight month to 216.5 billion euros ($277.3 billion) from 238 billion euros at the end of 2009, according to figures from the Bank of Greece.

Do you know how much Americans have in the same type of deposits? Interesting.
 
Quote from ASusilovic:

I think there is a lot of material here :

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/search/deposits/1


I need a Ph.D from Saint Louis Univ to decipher that info:)

But I gather that the deposits are about 5 trillion. Let us see, according to CIA fact book the pop of Greece is about 11 Million. USA is about 307 Million. Thus, 16K per person deposits in the USA. Greece comes out to about 25K. This means that Greeks are way more rich than the average American, or am I doing something wrong?
 
Quote from Ghost of Cutten:

Sovereign wealth funds piling in to a risky asset with shaky fundamentals - what could possibly go wrong?

Define risky and safe...

Enron? BP? C?

The USD?

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