QE Created Dangerous Financial Dependence, Italy Hooked, Withdrawal Next, ECB Warns by Don Quijones • Nov 22, 2018 • 72 Comments “Who will purchase €275 billion of government debt Italy is to issue in 2019?”
Italy’s Debt Crisis Thickens by Don Quijones • Oct 18, 2018 • 28 Comments But outside Italy, credit markets are sanguine, and no one says, “whatever it takes.”
Italy’s Debt Crisis Flares Up, Banks Get Hit, as Showdown with the EU Intensifies by Don Quijones • Oct 7, 2018 • 59 Comments Italy’s anti-establishment government takes on EU establishment in a struggle that could have major ramifications for the monetary union.
NIRP’s Revenge: Italian Bonds Plunge, Worst Day in Decades by Wolf Richter • May 29, 2018 • 74 Comments Markets wail and gnash their teeth as “normalization” of Italian yields sets in.
Hilarity in NIRP Zone: Italian 2-Year Yield Still Near 0%, as New Government Proposes Haircut for Creditors and Alternate Currency, Markets on “Knife Edge” by Wolf Richter • May 21, 2018 • 93 Comments ECB’s Negative Interest Rate Policy has been the funniest monetary joke ever.
ECB Tapering May Trigger “Disorderly Restructuring” of Italian Debt, Return to National Currency by Don Quijones • May 18, 2017 • 63 Comments The only other option: “Orderly restructuring.”
