The best plots are not those hatched in the dark, but those which – later – are revealed in broad daylight. But even on the pages of Corriere della Sera it goes well.
Courier which yesterday published an interview with Andrea Monorchio, known as “the Sfascist”, from Calabria (land of grapes and bandits) and an obscure economist were it not for the fact that, as State Accountant General, he was the protagonist of the most beautiful page of creative finance of History.
It was 1992, the year mirabilis (signing of the Maastricht treaty, mafia massacres, Clean Hands…). And on a night, with the newspapers closed, in July, with Italians on holiday, between Friday and Saturday, when the banks would only reopen on Monday, Prime Minister Giuliano Amato, to remedy the public crisis, imposed a forced levy of 6% on current accounts. Retroactive. Legitimized by emergency decree. But we will not use the expression “coup d’état”. But “half a coup d’état”, yes.
Anyway. Monorchio – who is still at large – reveals that he, Minister Goria and Amato did everything, alone in a closet, after having sent the other ministers home, without saying anything to the President of the Republic and the governor of the Bank of Italy. Ah. Amato also used a tongue twister to avoid understanding what was happening and to pass the measure.
But that was all, of course
done for the good of Italians.
It has nothing to do with it. But it occurred to us that only two types of animals decide on life and death under the cover of darkness. Politicians and vampires. Which sometimes coincide.