Bailout Blues

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The Bailout Bias

China s American Bailout?

1 Iterations Until Bailout

Will the bailout work?

Why the Greek Bailout Failed

Third, bailout fatigue is apparent.

The ECB s Secret Bailout Strategy

Consider the Irish bailout sorcery.

Does it need a BailOut?

Even talk of a government bailout reduces the debt holders incentive to act, making the bailout more necessary.

In the same week in April that former Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates announced the need for an international financial bailout to pay for its public debt of 80 billion Euros, Icelanders went to the polls to reject tax payers participation in the Icesave bank bailout deal.

I cannot plead for a government bailout.

The bailout exposed deep hypocrisy all around.

But with the bailout, people are saying

ATHENS The Cyprus bailout deal is a watershed in the unfolding eurozone crisis, because responsibility for resolving banks problems has been shifted from taxpayers to private investors and depositors.

Do you call it the bailout of Greece or the bailout of a load of stupid banks which lent to Greece?

Second, the eurozone s bailout bill continues to rise.

The Swiss government could afford the bailout, just.

Europe has similarly expanded its regional bailout facility.

Is that outcome morally superior to a bailout?

Eurozone taxpayers provided 10 billion in bailout funds.

The bailout packages are, in this light, impressive achievements.

Absent a foreign bailout, no other solution was on offer.

First came the Greek crisis, followed by the Greek bailout.

The reality of the 1976 bailout is even more complicated.

Spend in haste, repent at leisure America s latest bailout plan

Here is where the latest Irish bailout is particularly disconcerting.

The bailout of banks led to a wave of mergers.

Reacting to the US bailout plan, a Filipino academic writes

As one experienced diplomat put it, if you re trying to negotiate an exchange rate deal with 20 countries or a bailout of Mexico, as in the early Clinton days, with 20 countries, that s not easy.

Nations everywhere are starting to implement aggressive stimulus and bailout packages.

A recent example is the Greek bailout agreement of May 2010.

Deal or no deal

Another conservative accusation is that a bailout would infringe free trade rules.

So the bailout packages are all tied to some form of austerity.

Regardless of the details of the ultimate deal, the risk is that the ghost of Russia s bailout of Cyprus in 2011 could provoke severe side effects across Southern Europe, both for governments borrowing costs and for small savers.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, meanwhile, secured eurozone participation in a bailout for Greece.

And there is no explicit prohibition of some form of national government bailout.

Indeed, it is increasingly likely that Greece will renege on its bailout obligations.

Second, from a debt holder s point of view, a government bailout is better.

Bailout operations invariably bring bitter controversy because they help some but not others.

Since 2010, the country has been dependent on unprecedentedly large official bailout funds.