The Daily Debt Rattle

Submitted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer  –  The Automatic Earth

• Heta Senior Bonds Plunge as Austria Cuts Off Aid to Bad Bank (Bloomberg)

• The Great Global Monetary Easing of 2015 May Be Done by Midyear (Bloomberg)

• Fed Ushers In A New Era Of Uncertainty On Rates (Hilsenrath at FT)

• To Beat Austerity Greece Must Break Free From The Euro (Costas Lapavitsas)

• Greece Eyes Last Central Bank Funds To Avert IMF Default (AEP)

• Mixed Messages On Third Greek Bailout Talks (Reuters)

• Greeks in the Crisis: ‘We Need To Explain Ourselves’ (Spiegel)

• Investor Survey Shows 38% Chance Of Eurozone Break-Up In 12 Months (Reuters)

• French Factory Decline Even Worse Than Greece (Telegraph)

• Spain To Split? Snap Vote On Catalan Independence (CNBC)

• Portugal’s Successful Turnaround? A Fairy Tale (The Globalist)

• Tough Talk On Greece Alone Won’t Boost Ireland, Spain At Home (Reuters)

• European Union Showing ‘Signs Of Strain’ (BBC)

• China Will End Up Like Japan, Says Observer Who Called It In 1990 (Bloomberg)

• Gaddafi’s Cousin Warns Of A ’9/11 In Europe Within Two Years’ (Independent)

• US to Deploy Six National Guard Companies to Ukraine This Week (Sputnik)

• Heroes and Villains (Jim Kunstler)

• Syrian Conflict Is The World’s First ‘Climate Change War’ (Independent)