Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Defaultism

Greece Should ‘Default Big’ to Address Debt: Blejer
Greece should default on its bonds to stop a deterioration of the economy, said Mario Blejer, a former Bank of England adviser who took the reins of Argentina’s central bank after its 2001 default on $95 billion.
“Greece should default, and default big,” Blejer, who was an adviser to Bank of England Governor Mervyn King from 2003 to 2008, said in an interview in Buenos Aires. “You can’t jump over a chasm in two steps.”
Debt repudiation was part of someone's (Fisher?) debt cycle theory

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