step in with an emergency and we re really glad he was the guy that was here. looking at what europe has done, for example, for your the last two years, you can at least say they made a decision. maybe he didn t like the decision they made, but they made one as opposed to this kind of ongoing torturous thing. he wanted a be big bazooka in his pocket. which most guys do. he wanted shock and awe, which he dead. people said that much t.a.r.p., you ll want it back. we got most of it back, it stabilized the system and it was great big it was a big enough move to calm everything. there have been people who have said europe need as czar and they need hank paulson. he s suggested that hank go over there. which, of course, freaks the europeans. even geithner is here. hey, son. timmy. paulson might have they wouldn t have listened to them. how many are there. how many there s a zillion. 17 in the eurozone, they ve all got their finance ministers and the euro g
to see if there will be hints about additional want tay tish easing when they release their minutes from the latest wednesday meeting. welcome to the program. we start off with more gdp out of the eurozone. it s officially in recession. the contraction in the fourth quarter minus.77, worse than expected. it was down minus 0.3 in the previous quarter, down 0.5% on the year is the number. so that won t necessarily cheer anybody up. they ve just come off to slightly better than expected numbers out of germany and france. that has continued. france actually didn t cop tract any. up 0.2% on the month versus forecasts of a contraction. they have cut, of course, their annual forecast from 2012 from 1% to 0.5%. but the italy number will take some focus immediately now because we re going to get the composite euro figures out. they contracted by 5.3% overall. this is the background growth number. of course, for eurozone finance ministers who cancelled the meeting this evening to dis
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