• Credit is needed to encourage entrepreneurs to invest
  • Spanish banks are carrying assets at inflated values
  • Must take bad assets off bank’s books
  • No country matched Spain’s job creation during the boom
  • Spain’s policy should avoid worsening the recession
  • Spain has to tackle tax evasion to raise revenue
  • Public workers must change their values
  • Bank asset segregation will depend on memorandum
  • mechanism for bad assets will be a topic of talks with the EU

Bloomberg reporting