Euro zone
Discussion focused on renewed euro-zone sovereign-debt stress, especially France and Italy. Robin Brooks argued that ECB yield caps have concealed weak fiscal fundamentals and that the euro zone is structurally broken 7111214. A senior euro-zone official took a more reassuring view, saying France faces political complications but no contagion and retains options to address its challenges 24.
From the window to Oct 8, 05:30 ET — this window's take is still to be written.
Where the voices land
All voices 1 voice1 worsening
Sharply worsening
- RBRobin BrooksSharply worsening Expects the Euro zone is at risk of a self-fulfilling spiral in which investor sentiment turns permanently more negative. “The Euro zone is in danger of things spiraling into a self-fulfilling prophecy where investor sentiment turns permanently more negative” Open the post The global bond market sell-off has calmed today… · 12 Oct
1 worsening
Also asked
Risk 1 voice← rising · easing →1 rising
Very high risk
- RBRobin BrooksVery high risk Warns the euro zone's sovereign-bank doom loop was never resolved and the region could quickly return to deposit-flight stress. “All this stuff - the doom loop - got papered over by Draghi's "whatever it takes," but it never went away. We could be back to this quickly...” Open the post The peak of the Euro zone debt crisis in 2011/12… · 11 Oct
Mentions
5 this weekStories it travels in
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The stories
- ○ a voice, on the left
- ◌ a voice raising half of these
- ● a subject, on the right, under its story
- ⌒ a line is a voice raising a subject — thicker, more items; colour is the story
The stories this entity travels in: on the right, each story with the subjects seen alongside it; on the left, the voices that raised them, and a line for every subject a voice raised, bundled by story. Tap a voice to light everything it raises, a subject for who raised it, a story for its own lines. The crumb goes back.
Who brings it up
- Robin Brooks 4 mentions
- jeroen blokland 1 mention
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