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UK News article filters out £16.3 Trillion number

UK News article filters out £16.3 Trillion number


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Have a look here BTW:
http://www.halifaxinitiative.org/inde...

OK, so most of you probably looked at that Telegraph article I mentioned last night.

Few of you saw the same article that I did!

Well, it sure looks like someone from Downing Street got on the phone pretty quick after I read it and removed the numbers from it.

And, they are getting better - it's not in Google cache! Mahahahha!

Good job Downing Street! But now you gotta shut down the blogging sites! Check out Digg first...

Here's the missing parts:

European Commission officials have estimated that impaired assets may amount to 44pc of EU bank balance sheets. The Commission estimates that so-called financial instruments in the trading book total £12.3 trillion (13.7 trillion euros), equivalent to about 33pc of EU bank balance sheets.

In addition, so-called 'available for sale instruments' worth £4trillion (4.5 trillion euros), or 11pc of balance sheets, are also added by the Commission to arrive at the headline figure of £16.3 trillion.

Look at the URL on this link when it opens:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/fi...

Google the url to see other references to the article!

Peace ;-)


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Here is the article from the Telegraph, but Downing St has done their thing again.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/4590512/European-banks-may-need-16.3-trillion-bail-out-EC-dcoument-warns.html
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  • This is worrying
  • dopester
    dopester Posts: 4,890 Forumite
    That is partially why I'm not overly concerned with !!!!!! and others visions of inflationary pressures on the horizon.. rolling the printing presses for a few billion and panicking to buy a house - or a house and BTL galore for others who subscribe to that theory.

    The deflationary pressures are just so absolutely overwhelming - and they won't print tens of trillions. People will have to take their medicine.

    Guardian - The Global Financial Pyramid.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/dan-roberts-on-business-blog/interactive/2009/jan/29/financial-pyramid
  • makes you wonder how this is all going to be fixed
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    pandamonia wrote: »
    makes you wonder how this is all going to be fixed

    Time. It's the only thing that'll do it. The losses need to work themselves out and the insolvent go bust.
  • Generali wrote: »
    Time. It's the only thing that'll do it. The losses need to work themselves out and the insolvent go bust.

    Is that the same as saying the corrupt and greedy bankers need to go bust and divi their Ill gotten gains equitably amongst the the debtors they created?
    Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein.

    “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”-

    Orwell.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Is that the same as saying the corrupt and greedy bankers need to go bust and divi their Ill gotten gains equitably amongst the the debtors they created?

    The banks are the insolvent I'm talking about.
  • Generali wrote: »
    The banks are the insolvent I'm talking about.

    You didn`t answer my question.
    Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein.

    “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”-

    Orwell.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    You didn`t answer my question.

    I don't really understand your question. Do we identify the greedy bankers and force them into bankruptcy through some previously unknown route and their money given to people who borrowed money? Is that what you're saying?
  • Generali wrote: »
    The banks are the insolvent I'm talking about.

    The Bankers are far from insolvent

    Their customers are though.
    Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein.

    “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”-

    Orwell.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    The Bankers are far from insolvent

    Their customers are though.

    Perhaps we cross posted. Can you clarify your question?
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