According to reports, the amount of money that seems to have fled from the ATMs just today is estimated to be around 1 billion euros
well IF Greece defaults on the stuff....what is the plan
does the Greek Gov't announce the return of their Drachma(?) currency (I think it is called)
or do they simply keep using the Euro currency as their main currency and ride it down with the rest of the EU with such a Greek default annoucement?
(If I was Greek Gov't I'd still say the Euro was the currency of Greece....not much the EU could do about that I'd imagine)
feel free to tell me I don't know wtf I'm talking about ...but am mystified on what happens after they default (short term and/or long term)
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe you are right. If they default I understand that will lead to Greece leaving the Euro (aka Grexit) and they will return to their own locally issued currency.
I suppose I could google this ..but I am pretty sure at least in the past other countries have said their national currency was the USA dollar...thus my question.....I'd just say
screw you ...the Euro is still the currency of the country and let the rest of Europe 'eat some of this loss' on the devaluation of the Euro
unless by doing their own currency they can play some kinda game which devalues it by half or some such on its re-launch as the greek currency.thus wiping out 1/2 their
debt by some such trick
(confused)
edit: found this all it says to me is "It would be bad" so still confused
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11511457/What-happens-if-Greece-defaults-to-the-International-Monetary-Fund.htmlie lots of yelling at Greece being "bad" etc
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102584164So I guess what it means that on paper Greece is 'completely broke' and owes 'such and such' and can't pay it back...and as a result of being 'broke' and defaulted
we are now gonna devalue your economy by 50% more so that you are even MORE broke ...at least on paper.....so it is like all the thrills of a 17th century debtor's prison
you can default now completely and have a crash and burn and somehow build your economy back in the future and just from that consequence certain programs
the gov't provided etc are trashed .....
or
you can pass on endless debt from now to the foreseeable future with those same government programs trashed (pensions etc) by the EU
...and dig a bigger hole for the next generation..and still it all can crash and burn ...if the economy does not recover enough to pay back the bankers etc
hell at this rate Russia will come along say it will assume SOME significant part of Greek debt if it become part of the Russian Economic Union...whatever they call that... (hell it is what I'd do if I was Russia) all that access to Mediterranean ports for the military ....and such a PR coup........sh*t
oh boy lets bring the 4 horseman of the apocalypse into this also ...just to round everything out (ouch!)
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/beware-the-four-horsemen-circling-europe-greece-russia-migrants-and-brexit-31331358.htmloff to do more.... google to be more be confused
(well rounded I will be confused by fiat as well as crypto)