Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, claims that Coldplay's worldwide hit borrows liberally from his 1973 track, Foreigner Suite.
Mr. Draghi's vow last week and his assurance that "it will be enough" sent stocks up worldwide and drove Spanish borrowing costs down from their lofty levels.
But he would have been doubly alarmed at the way a worldwide jihad against government borrowing is being implemented in the aftermath of a credit crunch that has left too many countries with too much private debt owed by too many companies and individuals who cannot service it.
THE subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 is, in fact, a credit crisis — a worldwide disruption in lending and borrowing.
Yet, stock prices have risen and the cost of borrowing has fallen worldwide, helping European economies as well.
The financing crunch has its origins in a worldwide trend for banks to borrow money for shorter periods.
THE credit crisis, which made it difficult if not impossible for companies and individuals to borrow during the worldwide recession, appears to have returned to Europe.
Nor would investors worldwide have taken the risk of borrowing so much money to buy those bonds.
For example, illustrating Man the Creator was an exhibit of approximately 160 paintings borrowed from museums and individuals worldwide and exhibitions of sculpture, photography, and industrial design.
With global markets approaching something resembling normalcy after extraordinary interventions, banks worldwide have been seeking to repay money borrowed from governments at the height of the credit crisis.
She has borrowed objects from museum collections worldwide that have been exposed as fakes, as well as artwork impounded by the major theft squad of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the body charged with investigating art fraud crimes within the United States.
