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omething was in the works ("somewhere along the line here one of the bazookas is going to come out"). Stakes are high for the EU Summit next week as Monti has made clear says the Guardian<http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/22/mario-monti-week- save-eurozone>. Reminder that Sweden & Finland are

ricken-euro.html> Lagarde hopes that wisdom will prevail in Germany The Times<http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/economics/article3453119.ece> Mario Monti: we have a week to save the eurozone Guardian<http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/22/mario-monti-week-save-eurozone> Eurozone crisis will c

st two years saying, 'Oh, gee, we don't have to do much because after Obama loses we'll be in charge.' Well, now that world has ended." Dave Agema, Michigan national committeeman: "Traditional family values. Fiscal conservatism, yet willing to help those in need. That's what we really are. We should have

n will be, above all, a test of the maturity and realism of Italian voters." The mature, realistic action, presumably, would have been to return Mr. Monti — who was essentially imposed on Italy by its creditors — to office, this time with an actual democratic mandate. As Paul ICrugman wrote this week i

so broke right now. And the Republicans' refusal to acknowledge this is pretty much the whole problem. THIS WEEK'S READINGS Two months ago, when Mario Monti stepped down as Italy's prime minister, The Economist opined that "The coming election campaign will be, above all, a test of the maturity and reali

enacted a right-to-work law (allowing employees at unionized workplaces to get all the benefits of unionization without paying for them). Last month Michigan enacted a similar law. Don't blame globalization and technological change for why employees at Walmart , America's largest employer, still don't h

power by appeasing to voter sensibility with the promise of abolishing the much-loathed property tax for primary homes that current Prime Minister Mario Monti reinstated when he came to office in 2011, is an mystery wrapped in an enigma within a farce and evidence that Italy is on the road of becoming a th