Larry Levin’s Blog: Greek BankruptcyAs you see, we are going to have a short

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From Speigel online we read that Greece may be bankrupt. “MAY” be

bankrupt?http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,785482,00.html If this turns

out to be true, this week should be quite volatile.

German Finance Minister Prepares for Possible Greek Bankruptcy.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, who is reportedly doubtful that the country can be saved from

bankruptcy, is preparing for the possibility of Greek insolvency.

Officials in his ministry are currently reviewing scenarios for handling such

a situation, exploring what it might mean for the rest of the euro zone.

Under the first scenario for a Greek bankruptcy, the country would

remain in the euro zone. Under the other, Athens would abandon the common currency and reintroduce

the drachma.

The European bailout mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility

(EFSF), is playing a key role in those considerations. Soon the EFSF is expected to be given new powers

agreed to by European leaders at a special euro crisis summit in late July.

Two instruments at the EFSF’s disposal are at the forefront of the

Finance Ministry’s scenarios.

Bankruptcy Could Create Credit Crunch

One of these key instruments would be credit lines provided to countries like Spain or Italy if investors stop lending them money after a Greek bankruptcy.

If banks were forced to write off the billions in Greek government bonds on their books, they could become reliant

on billions in rescue fund aid in numerous euro-zone countries.

Both developments are to be expected in a Greek insolvency,

regardless of whether the country exits the euro or not.

Volker Bouffier, the governor of the state of Hesse, which is home to

Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt, is a member of Chancellor Angela

Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, as is

Schäuble.

Bouffier is now urging that the possibility for countries to leave the

euro zone be created quickly. Current European Union treaties provide no

provisions for a country to abandon the currency.

“If the savings and reform efforts of the Greek government aren’t successful, then we need to ask the question of

whether we need new rules to make it possible for a euro country to leave the

currency union,” Bouffier told SPIEGEL.

Trade well and follow the trend, not the so-called “experts.”

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