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uts and tax increases) self-defeating or the unavoidable response to high budget deficits and debt? Can central banks such as the Federal Reserve or the European Central Bank engineer recovery by holding short-term interest rates near zero and by buying massive amounts of bonds (so-called "quantitative easing")? Or will

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he Cyprus deal fatally undermined depositor confidence, thus making bank runs in other countries more likely. Certainly Cyprus and its paymasters in the European Central Bank have broken a taboo of the common European currency by imposing controls on the flow of capital into and out of the country, albeit "temporarily."

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only being kept out of the abyss by a debt restructure in 2012. And under that restructure it now owes money mainly to other European governments, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the IMF. These official creditors have slashed interest rates and stretched out maturities, but not enough. With a debt stock of 175% of G

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emanke understood the depths of the problem early and responded energetically and creatively. The clearest vindication of his actions has been that the European Central Bank, after charting the opposite course for three years with disastrous results, has adopted policies similar to the Fed's — and averted a potential Leh

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t economic activity had stagnated in France and declined in Germany and Italy. There have been some bright spots: The Spanish economy i= growing and the European Central Bank is adopting a policy that its chief, Mario Draghi, has dubbed "Whatever It Takes"—meanin= that he is willing to use all the monetary tools at his d