
What makes yesterday different from today? Size is a key factor in response to this question. Who's next in line for a bailout? How to talk to the dead? Illuminated leaders tend to talk with them in millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions and most recently, in zillions. The latest in a series of attempts to hide the fact that the whole wide world is financially, politically and morally bankrupt comes from the old continent, Europe. Consider this headline: "Europe Prepares Nuclear Response To Save Monetary Union". After a frantic weekend of negotiations in Brussels, the Eurozone's 16 finance ministers unveiled a package that pledges to guarantee the debt of any of the countries that use the euro. The unprecedented measures include: €440bn in loans or guarantees from Eurozone countries, €60bn from the European Union's Budget and up to €250bn from the International Monetary Fund. The European Central Bank said it will intervene in bond market and buy euro zone government and private bonds as a part of an historic bid to stave off a sovereign-debt crisis that threatens to destroy the euro. The Frankfurt-based ECB also reversed its withdrawal of emergency steps taken to tackle the global credit crisis, saying it will again offer banks as much cash as they want for terms of three and six months. It will also reactivate a swap line with the Federal Reserve and sell unlimited amounts of U.S. currency for seven and 84 days. The first operations will take place this week.