The idea that the European Central Bank (ECB) will fire a “silver bullet” into the euro-zone crisis by printing vast amounts of money to prop up the Italian bond market looks optimistic. Not only is the ECB itself vehemently opposed to the idea, but it would effectively involve the massive fiscal transfer that Germany and the core economies have been so strongly resisting.
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