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Here’s what you are not going to read in the newspapers. This is not a sovereign debt crisis. That’s baloney. Government debt has always been guaranteed. Until now. The decision NOT to guarantee government debt was a political decision, not an economic one. Governments’ always underwrite their debt because governments represent the collective interests of the people. And with sovereignty comes certain perks, like printing one’s own money if need-be. So, if a government like Italy gets into a jam and needs to either weaken its currency or lower interest rates; it can do-so by either printing more money or buying its own bonds to keep rates low. That means, there’s always some risk of inflation, but never any risk of default. And, that’s what matters, because investors don’t buy gov. debt to get rich; they buy it because it’s safe.

The scamsters at the ECB refuse to guarantee government debt because it’s not in their interests. What they want is a bigger share of the economy to go to big finance and corporate elites. And the easiest way to achieve that is by allowing bond yields to rise enough so the politicians can be blackmailed into doing whatever the banksters want. And we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everyone else.

This is Draghi’s game. He’s giving away the farm to his bankster friends and giving working people the finger.

The $600 Billion Ripoff

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