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'Goldman Sachs dictatorship - Hitler's dream'

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Dec 7, 2011

Time is running out for Eurozone leaders to save the single currency, as they prepare for eleventh-hour talks in Brussels. Germany and France are pushing to change EU treaties, to create a fiscal union and introduce tougher budget rules.However, the European Council President believes they can achieve the same goals without altering existing treaties, which would need a lengthy ratification process. The British Prime Minister warned he wouldn't agree to anything which damaged the UK's role in the European market. Meanwhile, credit ratings giant Standard and Poor's has added to the sense of urgency, as it threatens to downgrade 15 Eurozone countries as well as their bailout fund. Investigative journalist Tony Gosling says countries need to return to their own currencies if they're to escape being ruled by Brussels.

'End of euro road in 48 hours if no summit solution'

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Dec 8, 2011

The euro's survival is about to be determined as European leaders gather for a key summit later on Thursday. They'll examine proposals from the French and German leaders, which could radically change how the Eurozone works. Strict budget discipline and a common corporation tax for the 17 single currency members are among the priorities. Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozee are seeking to revise the 2009 Lisbon Treaty, which restructured the way the entire EU works. Britain is threatening to veto anything which might damage London's financial sector. The EU is already on watch for further credit downgrades if leaders don't act decisively in the next 48 hours. The man behind 2 of Belgium's leading business magazines and author of 'The End Of the Euro' - Johan Van Overtveldt says market reaction will be devastating if no real solution found.

CrossTalk on Merkozy: Averting Euro Doomsday?

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Dec 7, 2011

Can European politicians secure a future for the Euro? Will the common currency outlive the political terms of Sarkozy and Merkel? How much pressure will the markets be able to sustain? Are France and Germany's credit rating downgrades only a matter of time? Will the upcoming Friday meeting be another bitter pill for the markets to swallow? Will the Euro reach a point of no return - and if it does, what will be the final blow? Is the Eurozone too big to fail?

Bankers have seized Europe: Goldman Sachs Has Taken Over

by Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, November 26, 2011

On November 25, two days after a failed German government bond auction in which Germany was unable to sell 35% of its offerings of 10-year bonds, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany might retreat from its demands that the private banks that hold the troubled sovereign debt from Greece, Italy, and Spain must accept part of the cost of their bailout by writing off some of the debt. The private banks want to avoid any losses either by forcing the Greek, Italian, and Spanish governments to make good on the bonds by imposing extreme austerity on their citizens, or by having the European Central Bank print euros with which to buy the sovereign debt from the private banks. Printing money to make good on debt is contrary to the ECB’s charter and especially frightens Germans, because of the Weimar experience with hyperinflation.

Obviously, the German government got the message from the orchestrated failed bond auction. As I wrote at the time, there is no reason for Germany, with its relatively low debt to GDP ratio compared to the troubled countries, not to be able to sell its bonds.

If Germany’s creditworthiness is in doubt, how can Germany be expected to bail out other countries? Evidence that Germany’s failed bond auction was orchestrated is provided by troubled Italy’s successful bond auction two days later.

Strange, isn’t it. Italy, the largest EU country that requires a bailout of its debt, can still sell its bonds, but Germany, which requires no bailout and which is expected to bear a disproportionate cost of Italy’s, Greece’s and Spain’s bailout, could not sell its bonds.

In my opinion, the failed German bond auction was orchestrated by the US Treasury, by the European Central Bank and EU authorities, and by the private banks that own the troubled sovereign debt.

My opinion is based on the following facts. Goldman Sachs and US banks have guaranteed perhaps one trillion dollars or more of European sovereign debt by selling swaps or insurance against which they have not reserved. The fees the US banks received for guaranteeing the values of European sovereign debt instruments simply went into profits and executive bonuses. This, of course, is what ruined the American insurance giant, AIG, leading to the TARP bailout at US taxpayer expense and Goldman Sachs’ enormous profits.

If any of the European sovereign debt fails, US financial institutions that issued swaps or unfunded guarantees against the debt are on the hook for large sums that they do not have. The reputation of the US financial system probably could not survive its default on the swaps it has issued. Therefore, the failure of European sovereign debt would renew the financial crisis in the US, requiring a new round of bailouts and/or a new round of Federal Reserve “quantitative easing,â€

Engineering the Eurozone Collapse

F. William Engdahl
Posted on: December 8, 2011

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The leaders of the EU prepare for a summit this week as the Eurozone continues to spin out of control. But how did the collapse begin, and who will profit from it? Find out more in this week's GRTV Feature Interview with F. William Engdahl.