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http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2011/s3350031.htm
what they are coming up with is this idea in order to avert having to say to their electorate that there is going to be a kind of fiscal union - fiscal transfer to the countries that are indebted like Italy and Spain, that, "Look, we're not going to give them money.
What we're going to do is we're going to insure their debt," which creates more problems than it solves, because it raises the question of what happens with the old debt which is uninsured?
Who's going to buy that? You can imagine what will happen to the yields of the old bonds.
And there's about three trillion worth of those bonds doing the rounds in the financial markets. Look, let's just be very clear on this: it is a mess, and it is a mess of our politicians' making, and the more they're trying to wriggle their way out of this mess, the more mess they are creating.
TONY JONES: Do you think the markets are going to come to the same conclusion as you inevitably? And - because there doesn't seem to be a great deal here, as you've just pointed out, to help Italy and Spain out of the impending crises that they're both facing.
YANIS VAROUFAKIS: The only good thing one can say about our politicians is that they've created such low expectations in the markets over the last weeks and months that it's very hard to surprise negatively the markets now. So, even if the news is bad as opposed to atrocious, the markets are going to receive a little bit of a boost today.
But I think that once investors pore over the details of what's happening, they will realise that nothing much has happened, so it would be back to business as usual as of the - in the next two or three days.
TONY JONES: OK. A final question because there is another arm to this giant fund and that is a special investment vehicle, as it's called, for public and private investors, and there seems to be