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Greek Debt Crisis 2009. Crisis ultimately triggers a global banking crisis and credit crunch that lasts through 2009 felling global financial behemoth Lehman Brothers and prompting government bailouts of banks. With incomplete information because of the Greek governments deceit and history of substantial revisions to the official economic data investors understandably believed they were navigating in Greek securities markets without a compass. In December Greece admits that its debts have reached 300bn euros -. Even though Greece had defaulted on its debt several times in the previous 200 years the 2009 crisis was the first time such a large-scale and prolonged crisis had occurred.
This would shut down Greeces ability to finance further debt repayments. Click the link to get two FREE months of Skillshare Premium thanks to our sponsorship. The chart below highlights in red the period when the 10-year government bond yield. Therefore even a rough gauge was impossible of just how high a premium Greek. 14 December 2009 Greece will use its worst debt crisis in decades. This drove the overall fiscal deficit from 4 percent in 2000 to more than 15 percent of GDP in 2009a staggering five times the Maastricht limit.
This drove the overall fiscal deficit from 4 percent in 2000 to more than 15 percent of GDP in 2009a staggering five times the Maastricht limit.
By the spring of 2010 it was veering toward bankruptcy which threatened to set off a new financial crisis. Pensions and social transfers increased by a whopping 7 percent of GDP from the time of euro adoption to the eve of the crisis while the public wage bill rose by 3 percent of GDP. Greeces debt crisis The Greek economy like those of so many other countries entered a period of uncertainty as a result of the international economic crisis of 2009 and the NDs hold on government appeared tenuous. Fear of default widened the 10-year bond spread and ultimately led to the collapse of Greeces bond market. With debt markets reeling Greeces unsustainable debt piles began to be too tentative. Crisis ultimately triggers a global banking crisis and credit crunch that lasts through 2009 felling global financial behemoth Lehman Brothers and prompting government bailouts of banks.