Hyper Mario And Germany On Verge Of All Out Warfare
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
08/01/2012
Back in March we wrote “Mario Draghi Is Becoming Germany’s Most Hated Man” for one reason: a few months after the former Goldman appartchik was sworn in to replace Trichet with promises he would not “print” Draghi did just that in a covert way via $1.3 trillion in LTROs, that immediately hit the economy and sent inflation across Europe soaring. We said that: “Slowly but surely the realization is dawning on Germany that while it was sleeping, perfectly confused by lies spoken in a soothing Italian accent that the ECB will not print, not only did Draghi reflate the ECB’s balance sheet by an unprecedented amount in a very short time, in the process not only sending Brent in Euros to all time highs (wink, wink, inflation, as today’s European CPI confirmed coming in at 2.7% or higher than estimated) but also putting the BUBA in jeopardy with nearly half a trillion in Eurosystem”receivables” which it will most likely never collect.”
It now appears that the simmering hatred between the two is about to upshift to a whole new level, with the threat of open escalation finally arriving. Because if Sueddeutsche Zeitung is correct, via Reuters, in precisely 12 hours, Draghi will proceed with a plan that has neither Germany’s nor Buba’s blessing, in the process effectively isolating the only remaining solvent country in Europe, and its de facto paymaster, and forcing Germany to take a long, hard look at the exit sign (which, however, as reported earlier, with each passing day that drags Germany’s economy is becoming less of an unthinkable outcome). To wit: “Draghi is planning concerted action using both the ECB and the future euro European Stability Mechanism (ESM) to purchase sovereign debt from Spain or Italy in order to help push down borrowing rates for those two countries.” There is one problem: “highly doubtful that the German government would agree to Draghi’s approach. The Bundesbank also is likely to reject the idea, the paper added.”
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