we'll talk to trichet about the stress test, but much more jean-claude trichet on the future of europestay with us. ♪ >> good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance," i'm tom keene. greeley and if you have decided to stop by. sounds like a band. it was a great band. >> we started it off, and then you joined us. >> something like that. greeley and if you have. >> are you the drummer? >> i'm the lead singer, of course. >> we say good morning. really international relations this morning with four international elections. a lot to talk about, but part of this is our morning must-read about an election to come. here's brendan greeley. >> i found somebody who shares my apathy about the midterm elections. in the "f.t.," almost without exception the campaigns have been dispiriting, and the content absent, yet the mindless money continues to flow. >> we're not inspired, but i do think it's kind of funny, whenever i travel to europe, i have to remind people that whatever you might think of the tea party in europe, they make up 30% to 40% of the republican votes, right? it's not as if they're

president jean-claude trichet. and i quit. we consider the quit rate. good morning, everyone.oomberg surveillance." we're live from our world headquarters in new york. it is monday, october 27. i'm tom keene. joining me is scarlet fu and brendan greeley. right now let's get to our top headlines. here is scarlet fu. >> in brazil, the president promising great changes after winning a second term. she was re-elected with 52% of the vote, defeating the opposition candidate. rousseff says the challenge of pulling the country out of recession and slowing down inflation that is above the central bank's target. investors are skeptical. brazil's stock fell 7% last week on speculation she would be re-elected. in ukraine, they easily defe

in the summer 2011, jean-claude trichet, bought sovereign debt, he bought greek debt, he bought italian debt. but are we going to get to that point again. >> if you believe consensus, all right, consensus is what should they be doing. they shouldn't be so fiscally austere, they should be more aggressive monetary policy and there should be more structure reform. we have been waiting for more structural reform for some time. that is never going to happen. >> we've been waiting for it here today. the worry that it was going to be inflation in the basement of the currency was the negative effects of qe would be among the other -- now i think it's >> pan. if with he stay with japan and inflation -- well, i right now, europe is going to get closer, right? >> we have clay feet. this guy said it would be insane to raise rates in 2002. >> he has to be an outlier. >> i don't know. i don't know. they're all significant around, all these burrow accurates sitting in a closed room. >> the idea comes from the sense that the u.s. economy is better than europe. >> but they don't seem to believe it. >> n