Saturday, October 29, 2011

Guest Post: Greek CDS Shennanigans

Submitted by Finance Addict
Greek CDS Shennanigans
We now know that private holders of Greek bonds will be “invited” (seriously–this was the word used in the EU summit statement) to take a write-down of 50%–halving the face value of the estimated $224 billion in bonds that they hold. This will help bring the Greek debt-to-GDP ratio down from 186% in 2013 to 120% by 2020. The big question–apart from how many investors they will get to go along with this, given that they

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