27.09.2011 - 08:35 [ Wall Street Journal ]

A Fannie Mae for Europe´s Bonds?

Of all the ideas to emerge from this weekend‘s meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the most audacious is to turn Europe‘s existing €440 billion ($594 billion) bailout fund into a €2 trillion leveraged fund for buying European sovereign debt. Call it Europe‘s Fannie Mae solution.