economic growth. and the ecb president, mario draghi, said a continued selloff in italian bonds could hurt the country's banks and impact their ability to lend. >> these bonds are in the bank's portfolios if they lose value they are denting into the capital position of the banks. that's obvious that's what it is. so you have or one may have -- well, i'm still not optimistic, but i'm confident an agreement will be found that basically you have a dent in capital position, then you have a weakening funding condition as well. all of this will translate into different lending terms. >> that's been the response from rome a powerful italian lawmaker has responded to those comments. he is an economist who heads the budget committee in the senate, he said it was improper for the