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GGN- Greece Hires Former Goldman Banker as Debt Chief

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PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!!!!! nwotruth.com www.spiegel.de www.ft.com Greece replaced its debt management chief with a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investment banker, as declines in the countrys bonds roil European markets. Petros Christodoulou took over from Spyros Papanicolaou as head of the Athens-based Public Debt Management Agency, the Finance Ministry said yesterday in an e-mail. Christodoulou held positions in global markets at Credit Suisse Group AG, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase & Co. before joining National Bank of Greece in 1998, according to a company filing. The incoming guy is walking into a tough mandate, said Charles Diebel, senior interest-rate strategist at Nomura International Plc in London. Such is the sentiment towards Greece at the moment, a new broom could be a positive. Goldman Sachs helped the Greek government to mask the true extent of its deficit with the help of a derivatives deal that legally circumvented the EU Maastricht deficit rules. At some point the so-called cross currency swaps will mature, and swell the country’s already bloated deficit. Thank you everyone for subscribing!

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America’s Ticking Debt Bomb: Like Greece, Only Worse – Michael Pento

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America’s Ticking Debt Bomb: Like Greece, “Only Worse,” Pento Says Posted Jun 24, 2010 08:58am EDT America’s debt bomb is ticking and is likely to detonate in five years or less, says Michael Pento, senior market strategist at Delta Global Advisors. “It could be much sooner when we hit the debt wall,” Pento says. “My opinion doesn’t matter: Math tells me we’re in a serious problem.” The math Pento refers to is the Treasury Department’s recent estimate that total US debt will top .6 trillion this year and rise to 102% of GDP by 2015. Moreover, the publicly traded debt (debt excluding intra-governmental obligations) will rise to trillion by 2015, up from “just” .5 trillion in 2009. At trillion, the interest payments on the public debt will total about trillion in 2015, he continues; even assuming solid growth and low inflation, that would equal about 30% of total government revenue. “What do you think that does to our bond market?,” Pento wonders. “It leads to a dollar crisis and a bond market crisis. That’s why gold refuses to go down. ” Demand for US Treasuries and the dollar currently remain high, especially in the wake of the euro’s slow-motion implosion. Pento admits timing this debt crisis is difficult but predicts we’ll be “like Greece, but worse,” in four years or less, unless we make a sudden turn toward austerity. “When we hit the debt wall it’s going to be extremely pernicious, and quickly.”

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