Bloomberg reports that famed investor Jim Rogers and NYU professor Nouriel Roubini are none-too-pleased with the $1 trillion bailout aimed at rescuing wayward European nations.
Investor Jim Rogers said Europe’s bailout of indebted nations to overcome the sovereign-debt crisis is just “another nail in the coffin” for the euro as higher spending increases the region’s debt.
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“I was stunned,” Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Singapore. “This means that they’ve given up on the euro, they don’t particularly care if they have a sound currency, you have all these countries spending money they don’t have and it’s now going to continue.”
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New York University professor Nouriel Roubini said Greece and other “laggards” in the euro area may be forced to abandon the common currency in the next few years to spur their economies. The euro will remain the currency for a smaller number of countries that have “stronger fiscal and economic fundamentals,” he said in an interview on Bloomberg Television.
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All paper currencies are being “debased,” with the euro currency union at risk of being “dissolved,” Rogers said, adding that he continues to own the dollar, the Swiss franc, the Japanese yen and the euro.“It’s a political currency and nobody is minding the economics behind the necessities to have a strong currency,” Rogers said. “I’m afraid it’s going to dissolve. They’re throwing more money at the problem and it’s going to make things worse down the road.”
Not long ago, Rogers praised efforts by euro zone leaders to enforce budget restraint that is otherwise unheard of in the West. Now, it appears as though the ECB and the EU are no different than the U.K. and the U.S. in that more easy money is viewed as the solution to problems caused by easy money.
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At the same time, it is striking just how many representatives of the parties in Germany’s coalition government are giving advice to the Greeks, ranging from drastic pay cuts to an immediate declaration of insolvency right up to a swift withdrawal from the euro zone. These observers base their verbal radicalism on the noble economic argument that Greece needs to be made “fit for the financial markets” once again. Another, less sophisticated, argument goes that the vast majority of Germans are unwilling, after years of limiting their own consumption, to make financial sacrifices to help out Greece.
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