European Central Bank Chief Claims Eurozone Debt Crisis Is “Over”
Only a few weeks after the latest version of the Greek bailout package, the President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, is boasting that the worst of the Eurozone debt crisis is “over.” He made this remarkable claim in an interview with a German publication. Draghi boasted that the economies of the Eurozone were now stabilizing.
Draghi must be toking some powerful weed, or otherwise he is attempting to repeat U.S. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s previous boasts about economic “green shoots.” The latest PMI figures from Germany, which show that the country’s manufacturing sector is weakening, and other similar statistics from elsewhere in the Eurozone, make ECB president Draghi’s boast sound bizarre, to say the least.
Despite Mario Draghi’s high profile delivery of rosy prognostication, the Greek debt crisis is far from over, and the other PIIGS nations (Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain)have not seen their dangerous debt and deficit to GDP ratios, poor economic growth figures or catastrophic levels of unemployment magically improve. Draghi may be a wonderful propagandist for the Eurozone, but he is no magician.
