11-11/12 :: November/December 2011

nanotimes Trends Quotes

“The simple, fair, and best solution to the global debt crisis is the same as it ever was: 1. Acknowledge the problem 2. Restructure the debts 3. Move on (…).

And as hedge-fund manager Kyle Bass recently re- marked, capitalism without bankruptcy is like Catho- licism without hell.”

Henry Blodget: There‘s An Easy, Fair Solution To The Global Debt Crisis -- Too Bad No One Ever Talks About It, In: Business Insider, November 26, 2011, http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-fix- debt-problem-2011-11

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“A eurozone collapse in the immediate future would be widely perceived as a catastrophe, which should at least serve as a source of hope for the future. But if it collapses after several years of perverse macroe- conomic policies required by countries’ treaty obli- gations, the end, when it comes, will be regarded not as a calamity, but as a liberation.”

Kevin O‘Rourke: A Summit to the Death: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commen tary/orourke1/English

Biggest Gainers / Decliners

Headwaters (HW) +6.84% (12/05/2011)

“The eurozone has no credible plan to fix the flaws of the eurozone, apart from greater fiscal austerity: there is to be no fiscal, financial or political union; and there is to be no balanced mechanism for economic adjustment on both sides of the creditor- debtor divide.”

Martin Wolf: A disastrous failure at the summit, In: Financial Times, December 13, 2011

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