We've got a Federal Reserve that is in essence monetising the debt and encouraging more deficit spending.

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The only thing is that the basic treaty which set up the eurozone expressly forbids the ECB from monetising sovereign debt.

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In short, big numbers are now the norm and there are plenty of companies out there monetising them to the full.

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And that is, as I and many others better informed than I have been saying, start printing money and monetising the debts.

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Monetising corporate debt is the last throw of the reflationary dice and will signpost one last, desperate attempt to keep the old system alive.

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The gripe about Britain being poor at gestating bold entrepreneurs is an old one: the stereotype is of boffins who are good at generating ideas, but lose out to thrusting Americans when it comes to monetising them.

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The ECB could try to engineer this by aiming for a, say 5% eurozone inflation rate for a few years or more and do that through either simple money printing or by monetising some of the periphery debt.

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"They are monetising this kind of business, the strong position they have in the general search market and this is not only a dominant position, I think -- I fear -- there is an abuse of this dominant position, " Europe's antitrust enforcer said.

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