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Is Jean-Claude Trichet really Keyser Söze?

By driving up interest rates, piling the pressure on the eurozone periphery, is the president of the ECB seeking to destroy the current eurozone system in order to re-forge it

Is the mild-mannered president of the European Central Bank taking his cue from Keyser Söze, the subtle villain of the 1995 film The Usual Suspects, in mastering the art of quiet but ruthless manipulation to secure his ambition?

That is the contention of a note by David Owen, chief European financial economist at Jefferies.

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