The bolder than anticipated announcement of up to €750bn in loans and guarantees for euro-zone governments together with ECB government bond purchases hopefully reduces the immediate risk of financial market meltdown in the region. But it does not change the fundamental need for aggressive fiscal consolidation that will keep the peripheral economies in recession for quite some time.
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