The Dominoes Keep Falling: Leftward Lurches And EM Defaults

Posted by John Rubino - DollarCollapse.com

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Screen Shot 2015-12-23 at 5.13.15 AMSometimes one big event dominates the landscape, like last week when the Fed raised interest rates. Other times a bunch of less-universally-significant-things add up to a meaningful story. And the story that follows here is, of course (given the venue), ominous. 

First up is the much-discussed US$9 trillion that developing countries borrowed back when the dollar was weak and their currencies were relatively strong. Pundits have been warning that with the dollar soaring this debt was largely underwater and therefore a threat. But as far as anyone could tell it wasn’t blowing anything up. 

Then on Friday a big Mexican construction company defaulted..…continue reading HERE