{"id":5100,"date":"2012-08-07T01:23:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T05:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2012-08-07T01:23:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T05:23:41","slug":"italians-job-premier-talks-tough-in-bid-to-save-euro-wsj-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/07\/italians-job-premier-talks-tough-in-bid-to-save-euro-wsj-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian&#039;s Job: Premier Talks Tough in Bid to Save Euro &#8211; WSJ.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only the ECB has the necessary firepower to move the market. Senior German officials say the ECB&#8217;s help is what [Italian premier Mario] Monti has really been after all along. The Italian leader is convinced that the June 28 summit provided political cover for the ECB to take bold action, in the knowledge that euro-zone governments\u2014including Germany\u2014won&#8217;t oppose it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no doubt that the night before the disintegration of the euro, the ECB will do whatever is necessary to save it,&#8221; Mr. Monti says. &#8220;The question is: Do we need to get to the night before?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390444320704577566993975223080.html?mod=WSJ_World_MIDDLENewsIntl\">Italian&#8217;s Job: Premier Talks Tough in Bid to Save Euro &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only the ECB has the necessary firepower to move the market. Senior German officials say the ECB&#8217;s help is what [Italian premier Mario] Monti has really been after all along. The Italian leader is convinced that the June 28 summit provided political cover for the ECB to take bold action, in the knowledge that euro-zone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/07\/italians-job-premier-talks-tough-in-bid-to-save-euro-wsj-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Italian&#039;s Job: Premier Talks Tough in Bid to Save Euro &#8211; WSJ.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[962,1169,1295,2225],"class_list":["post-5100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-europe-countries-regions","tag-debt-crisis","tag-ecb","tag-euro-zone","tag-mario-monti"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Italian&#039;s Job: Premier Talks Tough in Bid to Save Euro - WSJ.com - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Italian&#039;s Job: Premier Talks Tough in Bid to Save Euro - WSJ.com - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Only the ECB has the necessary firepower to move the market. 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