ITALY has gone without a government for more than two months. That is no great shock. At elections on March 4th, Italians deserted mainstream parties and backed radical populist ones whose leaders have never had to haggle to form a coalition.The surprise has been the belated reaction of the financial markets, which this week suddenly woke up to the looming threat. The men who, as The Economist went to press, were on the verge of taking power in Italy cannot be trusted to run it.
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