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Draghi Mentions "Fiscal Transfers Between Richer and Poorer Regions" As Greece Vote Nears

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Mark Melin
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Sounding like a politician making a stump speech before an election, Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, said there is a major misconception about the eurozone monetary union.

The eurozone is a political union, not just a monetary union. Citing the willingness to solve collective problems, Draghi wrote in a Project Syndicate opinion piece that the eurozone is more resilient than many thought, and this is because people doubted and misjudged the political dimension. His comments come at a particularly tense moment, as Greece is on the verge of holding snap elections that could result in an unfriendly government taking control.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.