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German court rules in favor of ECB crisis-fighting tool [European Central Bank bond-buying]
TheLocal.de ^ | 21 Jun 2016 10:19 GMT+02:00 | (AFP)

Posted on 06/21/2016 3:25:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Germany’s top court ruled on Tuesday that a key crisis-fighting tool of the European Central Bank complies with German national law.

The constitutional court ruled that the ECB’s 2012 bond-buying plan called Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) complies with German law.

OMT — though never actually used — was part of ECB’s President Mario Draghi’s landmark promise to do “whatever it takes” to save the battered euro at the height of the crisis in 2012. […]

The promise of OMT was that the ECB could, if necessary, buy up unlimited amounts of government bonds from debt-stricken countries that had pledged reforms such as Italy, Spain and Portugal. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bailouts; borisjohnson; brexit; brixit; churchill; ecb; europeanunion; eussr; germany; kenyan; kenyanbornmuzzie; london; nato; nigelfarage; obama; sirwinstonchurcill; socialmarketeconomy; trump; ukip; unitedkingdom; winstonchurchill

1 posted on 06/21/2016 3:25:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Who would of ever thought they could save themselves by just Printing Money??


2 posted on 06/21/2016 3:44:11 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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