In February, I presented to the Eurogroup (which convenes the finance ministers of eurozone member states) a menu of options, including GDP-indexed bonds, which Charles Goodhart recently endorsed in the Financial Times, perpetual bonds to settle the legacy debt on the European Central Bank’s books, and so forth. One hopes that the ground is now better prepared for such proposals to take root, before Greece sinks further into the quicksand of insolvency.
2月，我想欧元集团（Eurogroup，由欧元区成员国财政部长组成）提出了一份选择清单，包括查尔斯·古德哈特（Charles Goodhart）最近在《金融时报》撰文支持的 GDP指数债券、清算欧洲央行账上遗留债务的永续债券等。我们希望，如今，在希腊进一步滑向破产深渊之前，让这些方案站稳脚跟的基础已有所加强。