Debt restructurings often entail conflicts among different claimants.

Debt restructuring would have given Europe the reset it needed.

With each passing day, it becomes more apparent that a restructuring of Greek debt is unavoidable.

They also believed that the first debt restructuring would lead to debt sustainability.

With mortgages amounting to 95 or more of the value of the house, debt restructuring will not be easy.

Rebalancing the Eurozone

More likely would be an IMF organized restructuring of the existing debt, swapping new bonds with lower principal and interest for existing bonds.

At the very least, it renders non viable all debt restructurings under the standard debt contracts.

The truth is that Greece needs more than just debt restructuring or even debt relief.

And Greece is in the throes of a humanitarian crisis today because the inevitable restructuring of its debt has been used as an excuse for postponing that restructuring ad infinitum.

Devaluation and debt restructuring worked.

So the only realistic and sensible solution is an orderly and market oriented but coercive restructuring of the entire Greek public debt.

But the buyback can succeed only if the market perceives it as the last chance before a unilateral debt restructuring.

Sequential, coercive restructurings of debt will come first, and then exits from the monetary union that will eventually lead to the eurozone s disintegration.

Meanwhile, the debt restructuring for which the eurozone not just Greece is crying out is unlikely to be politically acceptable in the current climate.

Defaulting, restructuring, changing the terms has consequences.

But that begs the question why should an involuntary restructuring lead to worse contagion than a voluntary restructuring of comparable depth?

For the market to finance vulnerable states would become complex, even impossible, and restructuring of public debt for other countries, and of the European Central Bank, would loom dangerously on the horizon.

There is, moreover, little evidence that a deep involuntary restructuring would be any more traumatic than a deep voluntary restructuring.

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At the same time, a technical default by Greece was avoided, and the country implemented a successful if coercive restructuring of its public debt.

Coercive restructuring of insolvent banks unsecured debt would be next.

To work, restructuring must come early and needs to be drastic, otherwise a debt problem becomes a problem of default, bank collapse and currency collapse.

Throughout history, other measures, including debt rescheduling, inflation, and various forms of wealth taxation (such as financial repression), have typically played a significant role.

The restructuring of economies away from finance will necessarily take some time.

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As he put it, I find it hard to imagine they will now man up to the proposition that they delayed at appalling cost to Greece, its creditors, and its official sector sponsors an essential debt restructuring.

Most important, this is true not just for Greece.

If most investors accept this offer, the restructuring occurs successfully.

But increased competition, restructuring, and new technologies inevitably displace workers.

Surely, a similar restructuring is the most plausible scenario in Europe as well.

A contentious redefinition of public debt

I have no debt.

Then, unless the EFSF pot were tripled a move that Germany would resist the only option left would become an orderly but coercive restructuring of Italian and Spanish debt, as has happened in Greece. Coercive restructuring of insolvent banks unsecured debt would be next.

The experience of Iceland and many emerging markets over the past 20 years shows that nominal depreciation and orderly restructuring and reduction of foreign debts can restore debt sustainability, competitiveness, and growth.

A restructuring of Greece s official debt, despite offering short term benefits, would weaken that framework in the long run by setting a precedent for exceptions, with other eurozone countries, sooner or later, requesting the same concession.

Then, unless the EFSF pot were nbsp tripled a move that Germany would resist nbsp the only option left would become an orderly but coercive restructuring of Italian and Spanish debt, as has happened in Greece.

A restructuring of the economy will be much more difficult, because it will have to be more far reaching.

CAMBRIDGE Improving technology, radical restructuring, and increasing competition are the hallmarks of the New Economy.

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