by Phil T Looker, finance commentator.
A recent agreement between the European Central Bank (ECB) and the central banks of the Eurozone member nations raises the prospect of EU taxpayers being forced to pay for more bailouts, German newspaper Die Welt reports.
The ECB's publication of its Agreement on Net Financial Assets (ANFA) with the 19 central banks of the Eurozone, which has previously been restricted circulation, raises more questions than it answers, Die Welt reported on Thursday 31 March.
This concurs with the views I have expressed in our publications for several years. The global economy is hollow, all major currencies are underwritten by debt, there is no substance to any of the statistics regularly pumped out by governments. Things have become so desperate recently that banks and governments are seriously discussing Negativ Interest Rate Programs (NIRP) a system in which people like you and me, if we are lucky enough to have savings on deposit with banks will, instead of receiving interest on our investment, instead pay the bank for holding our money.
We have already had interest rates held at zero or close to zero for several years. This has failed. Quantitive Easing Printing money) has failed. There is nothing left that they can squeeze.
The ANFA controls the amount of financial assets national central banks of the Eurozone may hold in order to carry service national obligations not directly related to monetary policy, which is controlled at European level by the ECB.
"The ANFA agreement, and particularly the Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) loans can be used to provide loopholes for central banks to rescue banks, for example when some insolvent banks are kept above water by poorly secured emergency loans," Philipp Konig from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) told the paper. "These loans are really only supposed to be short-term help for illiquid banks. However, we have seen in both Greece and Ireland that national central banks have considerable leeway."
Financial expert Daniel Hoffman said that there are currently 346 billion euros ($394 billion) of securities purchases on the balance sheets of national central banks, hiding under nebulous terms like "other securities" or "other assets," beyond the limit specified by the ANFA.
"After the rescue of bankrupt states and the multibillion euro purchase of government bonds, it will be the next taboo in the Euro system," Hoffman warned.
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