Where Will the Debt Go?

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	Tuesday September 20, 2011 Email Me | Visit our Blog | Subscribe | Unsubscribe Trouble Reading this Email? - Click Here Italy's Downgrade Where Will the Debt Go? 3Q Earnings are Coming Soon Fellow Investor, Forgive me if I am forced to delve into Europe and its debt again today. Standard & Poor's downgraded Italy's credit rating by one notch yesterday. Italy has debt at 120% of its GDP, or around $2.5 trillion. Unfortunately, Italy has to roll over approximately $67 billion worth of bonds by the end of this year. With yields on Italian debt rising, this becomes more expensive. The ECB has bought Italian bonds already. It may buy more. But that doesn't change the fact that investors will become more nervous about Italy as Greece comes closer to default. I've said I think Greece will indeed default on its debt, which totals around $500 billion. The New York Times today says that the market is pricing in 60% default. That is, bond holders would get $0.40 one the dollar for their Greek bonds. It's also reported that Euro-banks have written off Greek debt to the tune of around 20%. That means they still have a ways to go. Merrill Lynch says that the worst-case scenario for French and German banks is a $543 billion hit. That would include the 20% they've already written down. Now, I haven't seen the numbers so I don't know how these banks would lose more in value than Greek outstanding debt. The point is really that Euro-banks have more work to do in writing off their Greek exposure. For Greece to pay off its debt, at a time when its economy is shrinking 5% a year or more seems unrealistic. So why not just step up and state the obvious? In fact, default - or debt forgiveness - is an option for mortgage debt in the U.S., too. I know the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" crowd will disagree, but something has to be done about the housing market. 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