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The truth about Asian investment banking

March 2010

Sovereign debt: ECB must keep liquidity pumping


Governor Trichet must play it safe as markets fret about sovereign debt.


We all know the saying "you made your bed, now you must lie in it". That’s what faces the European Union as it seeks a solution to the potential financial meltdown being generated by Greece’s fiscal crisis, which threatens to envelope its EU’s neighbours.

The EU’s inability to police its profligate member states in a situation where budget deficits have made a joke of the 3% of GDP ceiling, while incentivizing the banking system to invest in government debt that is anything but risk free, has placed the EU...


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