Sir, Mehreen Khan writes, “hawkish governments, led by Germany… are reluctant to award Greece more generous terms that mean their taxpayers are not paid back in full” “
IMF signals need for more Greek debt relief” August 1.
The historical fact is that European central bankers, for the purpose of the risk weighted capital requirements for banks, assigned Greece a 0% risk weight. That meant banks needed to hold no capital (equity) when lending to Greece. That meant that among other German banks, caused Greece to take on that excessive debt that lead it to its current tragic predicament.
Some will argue that Greece also played statistical shenanigans with its economic data. That is true, but if German banks had to hold as much capital on loans to Greece than what they needed to hold against loans to German entrepreneurs or German small businesses, you could bet your last Deutsche Mark, sorry your last Euro, on that German banks, no matter how good economic data on Greece looked, would not have lent it a fraction of what they did.
And now IMF’s calculations find Greece’s debt costs will “begin an uninterrupted rise” after 2038, to about 20 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product every year.” Sir, is it really fair to single out some groups of European citizens to pay for the mistakes of everyone’s European authorities? Should that not be a totally shared responsibility?
Germans should be aware that at this very moment German banks, are required to hold much less capital when lending to its government or to some other governments, than when lending to German citizens… and that dooms Germany, sooner or later, to end up being another over-indebted Greece. And that applies to banks and nations much everywhere.
May I make a suggestion to Germans, and all Europeans, and all Americans, and all other? If so, that would be to get rid, immediately, of bank regulators that are either so statist so as to assign the sovereigns a 0% risk weight, or so loony so as to believe that what is perceived as risky is more dangerous to their bank system than what is perceived as safe.
@PerKurowski
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http://teawithft.blogspot.com/2018/08/what-if-germans-knew-german-authorities.html
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