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But it’s not as extreme of an intervention as Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” pledge to preserve the euro or Ben Bernanke’s bazooka program in response to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, experts say.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

He may also enjoy showing off his new tariff bazooka.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

The bazooka was designed as a deterrent—and it seems to have deterred.

From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026

Markets may eventually catch on—but only if they stop looking for a bazooka and start paying attention to the plumbing.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

They could hide a bazooka and no one would notice.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

"We know the bandits have all those bazookas, rocket launchers… We didn't believe they have the technical know-how and capacity to use them," retired security official Mike Ejiofor told the Vanguard newspaper.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2021

The elated health minister, Mutahi Kagwe, said that the country had “been fighting this virus with rubber bullets,” but now had finally acquired the metaphorical equivalent of “machine guns, bazookas, and tanks.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2021

“We have been fighting the pandemic with rubber bullets but what we have acquired today is equivalent, metaphorically speaking, to bazookas and machine guns,” Kenyan Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe said.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 2021

“The Fed went from bazookas that had mostly run out of ammo and skipped helicopters and went straight to the B-52s carpet bombing tons of cash on the financial markets and the economy,” Yardeni said.

From Washington Post ● May 8, 2020

“I’d like to have some bazookas of my own, like the ones in Commando. That would be beautiful,” I said, and we laughed.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah