The Globalist

Sergio Mattarella stays on as president, Mario Draghi remains prime minister. For Italy and Europe, this is the least bad outcome of Italy’s presidential election.

Salvini, Meloni and the hard right have to contend with a resurgence of the center left in Italy’s most important urban centers.

Rather than having the ECB continue its path of raising just the boats of the rich, it is high time for the delivery of “helicopter money” to everyday Europeans.

The European Central Bank needs to realize the monetary policy bucket is now empty.

Is Europe stuck in its economic ways because the United States protected it from harsh global realities for too long?

Italy has no choice but to build on Mario Monti’s achievements.