With only three weeks to go before the polls, the formerly unthinkable - a returnto power by the media magnate who has dominated Italian politics for the past two decades - has now become possible, political observers are saying.
Tuesday, White House announced that Summers would returnto Harvard University, where he formerly taught and served as president, at the end of the year.
In the 1920s, there was a pseudo-return to gold, in that the formerly belligerent countries wanted the currencies they had overprinted in the war to trade at the pre-1914 parities.