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Τούτον που έγινε μπορεί να πυροδοτήσει παγκόσμιες κατακλυσμιαίες συνέπειες Washington Post: Why today’s Cyprus bailout could be the start of the next financial crisis…Οι κατακλυσμιαίες συνέπειες από ένα πανευρωπαικό bank run και η κατάρρευση της ευρωζώνης

Ίσως τούτον που έγινε στο γιούρογκρουπ να αποτέλεσει το έναυσμα για ένα πανευρωπαικό bank run που θα έχει κατακλυσμιαίες συνέπειες για την ευρωζώνη την ευρωπαική ένωση την ευρώπη τζαι φυσικά τζαι τον κόσμο ολόκληρο

ένα τεράστιο ερωτηματικό είναι η στάση της ρωσίας τζια των μεγιστάνων δισεκατομυριούχων αλλά τζαι των εγγλέζων καταθετών στην Κύπρο


είναι η πρώτη φορά που αποφασίζεται το κούρεμα καταθέσεων

δεν τόλμησαν να το πράξουν στην ελλάδα που ήταν το κορυφαίο πειραματόζωο και όμως το πράττουν στην κύπρο


δεν ξέρω που οφείλεται τούτη η παρανοική που άποψης οικονομικών όρων τζαι ψυχολογίας της αγοράς κλπ κλπ


είναι απίστευτο αληθινά που δεν μπόρεσαν να προβλέψουν τούντο απλό σενάριο




It is a bad day to have your money deposited in a bank in the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus. And it may just mean some bad days ahead for the rest of us.


Line up and get your euros while you can! (Petros Karadjlas/AP)


What makes this important for people who couldn’t locate Cyprus on a map is this: It is one of the 17 nations using the euro currency, the fact that it’s a lot closer to Beirut than to Paris notwithstanding. European officials have spent the past six years moving heaven and earth to ensure that no depositors with the continent’s banks suffer a loss despite the financial strains the banks have been under.

Most dramatically, the Irish government in the fall of 2008 backstopped its banks, putting its public finances through a wringer. Even as the Greek economy has fallen into depression and Spanish bank losses on real estate have reached dangerous levels, the European Central Bank and the continent’s government have ensured that bank deposits were safe. They have feared that if depositors in any country were forced to take losses, it would spark a destructive cascade of withdrawals across Europe.

So is Cyprus different?

In a lot of ways, it is separate from the rest of the euro zone, and not just geographically. Its population is a mere 1.1 million (the Greek population is 10 times as large). It has an unwieldy banking system with liabilities equal to eight times its economic output, versus 3.5 times for the euro zone as a whole. Many of those deposits are held by wealthy Russians who use Cyprus as a convenient place to park money.

Those are the reasons the IMF has insisted on losses for depositors — those, and the fact that rescuing Cyprus’s finances without the 5.8 billion-euro contribution represented by depositors’ losses would have meant a bailout approximately equivalent to the country’s annual economic output, too much for the fund to stomach.

“The challenges we were facing in Cyprus were of an exceptional nature,” said Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who helped engineer the plan, according to the Financial Times. “Therefore, unique measures were determined to be necessary.”


The best the rest of the world can hope for is that Cyprus’s case is sufficiently unique that it won’t spark panic in Athens and Madrid (or in Lisbon, Dublin and Rome).


In other words, if there is going to be a new wave of crisis in Europe, historians will be able to trace its starting point back to today’s Cyprus bank bailout.



τζαι που δαμέ ένα άρθρο που το μπιζνεσινσαιτερ






Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/cyprus-bailout-risks-europe-bank-runs-2013-3#ixzz2NnXSF8Et


Bank run


Bank run in New York in 1933.





Here’s the short version of what’s happening:

Cyprus’s banks, like many banks in Europe, are bankrupt.




Not the bondholders.







Depositors rushed to ATMs and tried to withdraw their money before it could be seized.


So, assuming Cyprus’s government approves the deal (still pending), depositors will have some of their money seized on Tuesday morning.

Now, half of these depositors are said to be Russian oligarchs and other non-residents. And unless you happen to have the misfortune of having an account in a Cyprus bank, you may not care much whether these depositors have their money seized.

After all, that was the risk they took for storing their money in bankrupt banks, right?

Well, yes, that was the risk they took.


And they are smart to do so.


That’s called a run on the bank.


That’s what happened to hundreds of banks in the Great Depression.

And it’s what happened to Bear StearnsLehman Brothers, and other huge banks during the financial crisis (though, with Bear and Lehman, the folks who yanked their money out weren’t mom and pop depositors but other big financial institutions). It’s what threatened to bring the entire U.S. financial system to its knees. And it’s why the US and European governments have been frantically bailing out banks ever since.


Depositors in Cyprus banks will lose some of their deposits.

They will be furious about this.

And they will, rightly, feel that it is grossly unfair–because depositors in the bailed-out banks in Ireland, Greece, etc. didn’t lose their money.

And they will feel like fools for not having taken their money out.

And…here’s the important part…

Other depositors at weak banks all over Europe, in places like Spain, Italy, and Greece, will rightly wonder whether this is the beginning of a new era of bank bailouts, an era in which bank depositors are going lose some of their money.

What do you think those other depositors in Spain, Italy, Greece, etc., are going to feel like doing when they realize that, if their banks ever need a bailout, they might have their deposits seized?

That’s right.

They’re going to feel like yanking their money out of their banks.

And if some of them yank their money out of their banks, well–then the financial condition of those banks will go from weak to insolvent.

And the banks will go rushing to their governments and the Eurozone for help.

And if, god forbid, the Eurozone decides to seize the deposits of more bank depositors…

Well, then, a good portion of Europe is going to suddenly experience a good old-fashioned bank run.

That, to put it mildly, could be a disaster.

It could bring the European financial crisis, which has lurched from one flare-up to another for most of the past five years, to a rather sudden head.

How much would it cost for the powers-that-be to bail out all of Europe’s weak banks at once?

A lot.

More than the Eurozone has in its emergency lending facilities, certainly. And more than the International Monetary Fund has on hand.

So the U.S. would probably have to get involved.

And, regardless of whether the U.S. needed to get involved, the European economy would likely suffer the equivalent of a heart attack.

That wouldn’t be good for the U.S. economy.

Or the Chinese economy.

Or any other economy that sells things to Europe.

So, you can see, this little decision to seize a little money from bank depositors in the little island of Cyprus could be a much bigger deal than you think.

It could conceivably precipitate a run on weak European banks.

And a run on weak European banks could hammer the European economy and then the economy of Europe’s trading partners. And it could cause global markets to crash.

So keep an eye on what’s going on over there in Cyprus.

It’s potentially much more important than it seems.





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