Turbo Timmy has taken his satchel of economic knowledge on the road.
He's gone to Europe, Wroclaw specifically, and lectured European finance ministers on the finer economics and leveraging their money.
(I think I saw this on a TV real estate infomercial)
Timmy educates the Europeans on economics. Yaw.
Dumbstruck
But Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's high-profile trip to Europe left some European officials more dumbstruck than starstruck.
[blockquote]"I found it peculiar that even though the Americans have significantly worse fundamental data than the euro zone that they tell us what we should do and when we make a suggestion ... that they say no straight away,"
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Maria Fekter told reporters afterwards, recalling a difference of opinion between Geithner and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble...
Cool
[Geithner wants them] to "to leverage their bailout fund to better tackle the debt crisis and to start speaking with one voice. "
One analyst familiar with the proposal said it would involve the EFSF (European Financial Stability Facility) guaranteeing a portion -- perhaps 20 per cent -- of potential losses on euro zone debt, so that its capital would effectively stretch five times further.
So Timmy, you want them to enhance the money supply 5 to 1.
How do they do that? Print more Euros?
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Timmy, if you don't say anything they won't realize you don't know what you're talking about.
Trichet was speaking as ministers wrapped up two days of talks marred by a clash of thinking between US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and leading European finance ministers, both German and Belgian finance ministers having highlighted the United States as carrying the world's heaviest debt burden.
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