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Several months back, the eurozone national governments fell into ‘Ponzi’ as growth prospects went negative.
They now seem to be in that downward spiral of falling revenues, rising transfer payments, and rising credit default premiums.
Without a fiscal response to restore growth this will only get worse, and the National governements are, by treaty and by market dependence, in no position to enact a meaningful fiscal expansion.
Highlights
| Trichet Says Decline in Oil Prices Is Helping Global Economy |
| ECB’s Trichet Says ‘Fragility’ of Financial System Is Challenge |
| Nowotny Says ECB Is Keeping Some ‘Fire Power’ on Interest Rates |
| ECB’s Hurley Says Euro Economy to Contract Next Year |
| Bini Says ECB’s Rate Decision Data Driven, Ansa Says |
| Italy’s EU20 Billion Bank Plan Wins Approval From EU |
| Germany Scales Down Second Stimulus Package, Sueddeutsche Says |
| Sarkozy Will Announce Measures to Help Auto Industry by Jan. 31 |
| European Bonds Open Little Changed; Two-Year Yield 1.75 Percent |
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