…participants that financing will be available against good collateral, lessening concerns about funding and rollover risk,” the central bank said. The Bank of England and the ECB will each double…

…the end of the year, but slowly… The mid-range forecasts showed the ECB increasing rates to 2.25 percent by the end of the year and to 2.75 percent by September…

…euro already, and maybe the perception is that it does not have much further to fall. A related story could be that Europeans believe that the ECB won’t let the…

…the Bush tax cuts. Europe is a different story. Elections in major European countries are still pretty distant and governments have settled firmly into survival mode. The ECB is becoming…

…bonds, bank accounts) that non-EU citizens could purchase in any given month. Such a move would reduce the demand for euros, and thus help to keep the euro from rising…

…think there is a reason for the originality of the Schiff-Nedici-Pomponius correlary. It is called the European Central Bank (or the Fed if Blanchard convinces the ECB). Now Euros are…

I have seen the top of the Dow Jones index as 16,800, but when the ECB loosened monetary policy to an extent never before seen last week, the Dow Jones…

…of their returns, debtors are not. And this includes not just individuals but whole countries. Like Greece. So in a pinch the right answer is to “liquidate farmers, liquidate stocks”…

…from the ECB, only to roll it off over the next six months or so.  Of course some of the more innovative things done then were coming out of the…

…up about 100 basis points. This isn’t a crisis yet. I recall back when Italia caught a bit of Greek contagion (before ECB president Mario Draghi said “whatever it takes”)…