Hey, Brussels, Italy’s Printing Up Some Un-Euro Mini-BOT’s To Skirt Your Budget Rules

Italy’s populist leaders are discussing paying public-sector suppliers with IOUs instead of money, a step that Italian euroskeptics have proposed as the starting point for a new currency in case Italy has to leave Europe’s currency union.

The heads of the nativist League and antiestablishment 5 Star Movement, which make up the governing coalition in Rome, want to assess the idea of paying off government arrears using IOUs with denominations as small as €50 ($56), dubbed “Mini-BOTs” after Italy’s BOT treasury bills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/italy-short-of-euros-flirts-with-a-different-way-to-pay-11560178888?mod=hp_listc_pos2