According to Silvio Berlusconi in The Times this morning. The ECB should be that lender, but Germany oppose it - presumably as mass euro printing hurts their export market.
Then again, Italy circling the plug hole ultimately could hurt their export market - so to that end it's arguing with itself really.
That said, the EFSF has been forced into buying up it's own debt, and the BRIC nations won't invest in such a "lazy" europe, where we all retire at 50 and only pay tax when we volunteer it (finger pointed at Greece and Italy here).
So the options are :
Italy goes bust
ECB prints Euros
Germany bails out Italy
IMF prints SDRs and tops up the EFSF
EFSF leverages it's coppers with handouts from China.
Whichever of those options pans out, the end game is still the same. A much more tightly integrated europe. And Merkel this morning stating we should embrace our political unity.
The euro is on life support for the benefit of Germany. No wonder no one is interested in helping out.
Then again, Italy circling the plug hole ultimately could hurt their export market - so to that end it's arguing with itself really.
That said, the EFSF has been forced into buying up it's own debt, and the BRIC nations won't invest in such a "lazy" europe, where we all retire at 50 and only pay tax when we volunteer it (finger pointed at Greece and Italy here).
So the options are :
Italy goes bust
ECB prints Euros
Germany bails out Italy
IMF prints SDRs and tops up the EFSF
EFSF leverages it's coppers with handouts from China.
Whichever of those options pans out, the end game is still the same. A much more tightly integrated europe. And Merkel this morning stating we should embrace our political unity.
The euro is on life support for the benefit of Germany. No wonder no one is interested in helping out.
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