Savers Must Pay for Debt Crisis

People ♦ Published: October 6, 2012; 18:51 ♦ (Vindobona)

At the European Forum Alpbach, analysts explained that the debt crisis can only be solved through negative real interest rates.

Savers Must Pay for Debt Crisis / Picture: © Raiffeisen Bank International / M. Schreiber

Peter Brezinschek chief economist of RBI (Raiffeisen Bank International) expects a high inflation rate because of the quantitative easing measures.

According to Michael Rottmann at UniCredit, the high public debt can only be reduced by a long-term phase of negative real interest rates. The higher the debt, the more negative the real interest rate, he says. “We can see that…