Is the ECB doing more than we think?

Recent changes to the ECB’s bank lending operations and the news that national central banks may lend to the IMF have raised hopes that support for the region’s most troubled economies is being increased via the back door. But even if this is so, we doubt that it will bring the debt crisis to an end.

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