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Time for Germany’s Bundesbank to Put Up or Shut Up
The future of the euro and maybe of the European Union itself will turn in the next few weeks on a disagreement between Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, and Jens Weidmann, head of the Bundesbank. Draghi wants the ECB to do “whatever it takes” to preserve the single currency. Weidmann doesn’t. A question arises: How did the Bundesbank, representing just one nation among the 17 members of the euro area, ever acquire the veto over ECB policy it is apparently allowed to wield? There are two main answers. First, when the Bundesbank ruled the roost as Germany’s central bank, its reputation was ... (full story)
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