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«What would happen if credit rating agencies ceased to exist? It is a question that few of us ask ourselves today, but one that leads to some fascinating reflections.»That’s how it began" 
Bankia’s brand-new chairman, Rodrigo Rato, spoke at the 18th Financial Sector Conference, where he made a joke that was not only unfortunate but also completely unfunny. The economic comparison of Europeans is odious, and on the one hand we lambast those who refer to the EU’s periphery in terms of the PIGS, whilst with the other, the chairmen of Spanish banks publicly recall the old joke: «…a German, an Englishman, a Frenchman and a Spaniard are on a plane…» You can see the joke recalled by Rodrigo Rato in the following 
Well then, what Mr Rato sees as an enviable situation – one that would make the British, Italians or French gladly parachute into Spain to enjoy our favourable financial conditions in terms of assets and liabilities – it is clear to everyone that this is nothing more than a distortion resulting from the precarious state of the Spanish financial system. Pure desperation to keep bankrupt balance sheets afloat. Yet according to the chairman of the new bank (formed by merging former savings banks and their toxic assets), the favourable terms offered by our banks are the envy of the rest of Central Europe. Who are they trying to fool? Well, yes, I know, they’re fooling savers who entrust their money to them in all sorts of banking products in exchange for tempting interest rates. But who else? The fact is, their business is kept afloat by the public trust which, paradoxically and surprisingly, they still enjoy. That is why any opportunity, quip or media appearance is a chance to repeat the sole mantra that keeps them afloat: the Spanish financial system is not bankrupt, property prices will not fall any further, and a whole string of well-worn lies.
With barely 10 years having passed since two aeroplanes full of passengers brought down New York’s tallest skyscrapers, reality is once again overtaking fiction. It is true that what is happening in Japan has, at first glance, a lesser global impact than the threat of international terrorism posed by the 9/11 attacks, but the sequence of events that have unfolded since the earth shook last Friday goes beyond anything our imagination could have foreseen.
Misfortunes are piling up in a sinister way, as the earthquake has caused