Last week, the IMF published a note outlining why it believes that a government default in the advanced world is “unnecessary, undesirable and unlikely”. While the note makes several valid points, we think that the IMF is being too sanguine. Indeed, in our opinion, there remains a strong chance that, in the medium term, some peripheral euro-zone governments restructure their debts.
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