Saturday, January 05, 2013

Desperate Spain Raids Pension Fund

Desperate Spain Raids Pension Fund | Via Meadia
“Most of the [Spanish] fund is an accounting trick,” said Javier Díaz-Giménez, an economics professor in Spain’s IESE business school.
“The government is lending money to another branch of government.” .
[S]ome analysts say Spain will have trouble finding buyers for the estimated €207 billion in debt it plans to issue in 2013, up from €186 billion in 2012, to cover central-government operations, debt maturities of 17 regional administrations, and overdue energy bills.

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