"The financial crisis spreading like wildfire across the former Soviet bloc threatens to set off a second and more dangerous banking crisis in Western Europe, tipping the whole Continent into a fully-fledged economic slump.
Currency pegs are being tested to destruction on the fringes of Europe’s monetary union in a traumatic upheaval that recalls the collapse of the Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992.
“This is the biggest currency crisis the world has ever seen,” said Neil Mellor, a strategist at Bank of New York Mellon.
Experts fear the mayhem may soon trigger a chain reaction within the eurozone itself. The risk is a surge in capital flight from Austria – the country, as it happens, that set off the global banking collapse of May 1931 when Credit-Anstalt went down – and from a string of Club Med countries that rely on foreign funding to cover huge current account deficits.."
Y no es todo, Rusia se está quedando sin dinero: restaurantes en el centro de Moscú empiezan a negarse a recibir el pago de la cuenta con tarjeta de crédito. Los cajeros automáticos del Sberbank, el mayor banco gubernamental ruso han dejado de aceptar tarjetas de crédito de otros bancos. El crédito ya no vale nada. Solo el efectivo cuenta. Lo mismo que sucedió en Argentina en el 2001 empieza a esparcirse como epidemia por todo el mundo. Compren chocolates, falta mucho para la primavera...
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