If I'm right?its simple math. Banks are heavily leveraged and small losses can topple them. Every situation is different. Canada nationalized half of the morgage system a long time ago through cmhc so the banks could lend with impunity unlike the us who nationalized Fannie and Freddie after the crisis. Then look at japan their whole system was basically recapped after the collapse through the central bank which is now what we are going through. The only reason the whole thing hasn't been flushed is the whole world is in crisis.
A little knowen story here in canada is that in the nineties we had a soverign failed bond bid bailed out in the last minutes then Cretian and Martin went to work and handed us a mouth full of austerity because they had to. Kind of like Greece but they moved us before the market forced us.
The whole thing is very complicated to explain in a few paragraphs. And I'm not to sure the politicians have their heads around it but in their defence it's a pretty fluid situation with multiple variables that change so outcomes are difficult to predict.
A little knowen story here in canada is that in the nineties we had a soverign failed bond bid bailed out in the last minutes then Cretian and Martin went to work and handed us a mouth full of austerity because they had to. Kind of like Greece but they moved us before the market forced us.
The whole thing is very complicated to explain in a few paragraphs. And I'm not to sure the politicians have their heads around it but in their defence it's a pretty fluid situation with multiple variables that change so outcomes are difficult to predict.
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