Money Morning asked: By Mike Caggeso Associate Editor Money Morning A spree of economic props dominoed across Europe today (Thursday) all sharing the same theme - stopping the global financial crisis from getting worse.The European Central Bank took a drastic step to protect the Eurozone economy from shrinking further by lowering its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to 2.5%.As ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet announced the largest cut in the Eurozone’s 10-year history, he said that the region is bracing for negative growth next year."Global and euro-area demand are likely to be dampened for a protracted period of time," Trichet said at a press conference in Brussels today, Bloomberg reported.The ECB estimates average annual real gross domestic product (GDP) growth to be between 0.8% and 1.2% in 2008, between -1.0% and [+]