Investors are betting the house on Mario Monti. Italy’s unelected prime minister presented a new set of spending cuts and tax increases to parliament yesterday and already Italian bond yields are dropping. The measures were enough to send the 10-year yield tumbling below 6 per cent. It is worth pausing to consider two things, however. First, Italy needs growth, not austerity. Second, parliament may well water it all down. The measures are a welcome but small step on a very long journey.
投資者把身家押在了馬里奧?蒙蒂(Mario Monti)身上。這位并非經(jīng)選舉產(chǎn)生的意大利總理，昨日向國(guó)會(huì)提交了一套減支增稅的新方案，意大利國(guó)債收益率應(yīng)聲下落。這些措施足以讓10年期國(guó)債收益率大幅降至6%以下。不過我們有必要停下來考慮兩個(gè)問題。第一，意大利需要的是增長(zhǎng)，而不是財(cái)政緊縮。第二，意大利國(guó)會(huì)很可能會(huì)往這套方案中“兌水”，使其效力大打折扣。盡管這些措施令人欣慰，但它們只是漫長(zhǎng)旅程中的一小步。