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Unfinished buildings due to the crisis in A Coruña.. The residential real estate bubble saw real estate prices rise 200% from 1996 to 2007. [19] [20]€651 billion was the mortgage debt of Spanish families in the second quarter of 2005 (this debt continued to grow at 25% per year – 2001 through 2005, with 97% of mortgages at variable rate interest).
This was the first Eurozone crisis since its creation in 1999. As Samuel Brittan pointed out, [6] Jason Manolopoulos "shows conclusively that the Eurozone is far from an optimum currency area". [7] Niall Ferguson also wrote in 2010 that "the sovereign debt crisis that is unfolding... is a fiscal crisis of the western world". [8]
Between 2009 and 2017 the Greek government debt rose from €300 bn to €318 bn, i.e. by only about 6% (thanks, in part, to the 2012 debt restructuring); [34] [119] however, during the same period, the critical debt-to-GDP ratio shot up from 127% to 179% [34] basically due to the severe GDP drop during the handling of the crisis.
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The property crash led to a collapse of credit as banks hit by bad debts cut back lending, causing a severe recession. As the economy shrank, government revenue collapsed and government debt began to climb rapidly. By 2010, the country faced severe financial problems and got caught up in the European sovereign debt crisis.
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Latin American debt crisis [23] 1988–89: Latin American debt crisis [23] 2001: Following years of instability, the Argentine economic crisis (1999–2002) came to a head, and a new government announced it could not meet its public debt obligations. [23] 2005–16: Argentine debt restructuring. 2014 [24] [25] 2020 [26] Bolivia: 1927 [2] Brazil ...
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