Is 2011 a Repeat of 2008?

The crisis in Europe seems to be more imminent than in the U.S. The world economy is so interconnected that one country in Europe failing may trigger a massive financial crisis in Europe and then in the U.S.

Gonzalo Lira explains why 2011 is about to become a bigger version of the 2008 crisis.

From his blog:

The structural causes that led to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 are identical to the structural causes that are leading us to another systemic financial crisis in 2011.

The only difference is the kind of debt at the core of the looming crisis: Mortgage-backed securities in 2008, as opposed to European sovereign debt in 2011.

And of course, the debt hole in 2011 is bigger than in 2008—a lot bigger.

That’s why I am confident in predicting we are about to have another Global Financial Crisis—I’m calling it The Sequel: Same movie, same players, same story. Only this time around—like all good sequels—the financial crisis we are about to experience is going to be bigger, longer, and uncut by bailouts.

By the way, that is the key difference between 2008 and 2011: We’re not going to have a Hollywood Ending this time around. The governments of Europe and the United States, as well as their respective central banks, do not have any weapons to fight off this 2011 financial crisis, as they did in 2008, for the simple reason that they used them all up—they’re out of bullets, both monetarily and politically.

http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2011/08/sequel-how-2011-is-repeat-of-2008only.html