Explains why Ireland suffered needlessly in the GFC
Europe’s new Führer (yes — I just went there) doesn’t seem to understand what capitalism is, or how markets work.
From Felix Salmon:
Ms Merkel agreed that private sector bondholders would not be asked to bear some of the losses in any future sovereign debt restructuring, as she had insisted this year in the case of Greece’s second bail-out. However, future eurozone bonds will still include collective action clauses providing for potential voluntary rescheduling of private debt.
Ms Merkel said it was imperative to show that Europe was a “safe place to invest”.
To understand just how stupid this is, all you need to do is go back and read Michael Lewis’s Ireland article. The fateful decision in Ireland was to take the insolvent banks and give them a blanket bailout, with the banks’ creditors all getting 100 cents on the euro. That only served to put a…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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