Fighting With Spanish Windmills, Or How Spain’s Debt/GDP Ratio Is Double What Is Reported !

• Never believe in the outward appearance, the illusion which the politician snakes sell ! How do you tell when snakes lie? Whenever they move their lips!
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  Fighting With Spanish Windmills, Or How Spain’s Debt/GDP Ratio Is Double What Is Reported ! 
  by Tyler Durden, http://www.zerohedge.com/ 
  From Mark Grant author of ‘Out of the Box and Onto Wall Street‘
  Fighting With Spanish Windmills
  When I first attempted to find a more realistic debt to GDP ratio for Spain, Belgium, Italy et al I did it on a stand-alone basis; no inclusion of their European liabilities. When I approached Germany, given their size and importance in the EU, I focused upon their liabilities to the European Union. Several institutions have since asked me to consider the total liabilities for each country as every nation in the European Union has national debts as well as debts for their percentage of ownership for the EU and the European Central Bank.
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  Using the combination of national liabilities and any nation’s percentage of EU/ECB liabilities one then could ascertain a final and complete picture of a real debt to GDP number that, unlike the Eurostat data, would be inclusive of sovereign guarantees, contingent liabilities and their responsibilities to the EU and the ECB. This schematic then would tell each of us what a given country actually owed so the total reality could be assessed for judgment. Given that Spain is currently in focus and that nowhere that I have ever seen has there been an accurate national debt coupled with Spain’s European debt schematic; I have decided to provide you one.
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  The Data
  Spain’s GDP                                                  $1.295 trillion
  SPAIN’S NATIONAL DEBT
  Admitted Sovereign Debt                                         $732 billion
  Admitted Regional Debt                                           $183 billion
  Admitted Bank Guaranteed Debt                              $103 billion
  Admitted Other Sovereign Gtd. Debt                         $ 72 billion
  Total National Debt                                               $1.090 trillion
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  SPAIN’S EUROPEAN DEBT
  Spain’s Liabilities at the ECB                                    $332 billion
  Spain’s Cost for the EU budget                                 $ 20 billion
  Spain’s Liabilities for the Stabilization Funds            $125 billion
  Spain’s Liabilities for the Macro Fin. Ass. Fund         $ 99 billion
  Spain’s Guarantee of the EIB debt                           $ 67 billion
  Spain’s Total European Debt                                   $643 billion
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  Spain’s National and European Debt         $1.733 trillion
  Spain’s OFFICAL debt to GDP Ratio                          68.5%
  Spain’s ACTUAL Debt to GDP Ratio                  133.8%

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