Italy is currently in the process of forming a new unity government and voting on austerity measures. It remains to be seen if the country will be able to avert a euro zone meltdown on its own or if it will need EU assistance to prevent disaster.Read more here.Compared to Greece, Portugal and Ireland, Italy is an economic giant.
Italy’s debt is the second largest in the euro zone, leading many to question if the country is just too big to bail out. Italy’s debt is at $2.6 trillion (€1.9 trillion)—simply too much for the European continent to cover.
Gold holdings in Italy’s central bank are worth just a tenth of what the country would require for a bailout.
Investors are dumping Italian bonds. Interest rates on 10-year bonds are now over 7 percent—an enormous rate. Markets in the U.S. and Europe are reacting negatively to Italy’s fiscal crisis.
If Italy is unable to pay its massive debt it could mean a economic repercussions for Europe and the U.S. Banks in the U.S., in particular, are more affected by Italy than other countries in the EU. [...]
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