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European Central Bank Leaves Rates Unchanged
The European Central Bank left all its interest rates unchanged on September 7, 2016. No changes were made to asset purchase program, which will run until March 2017 or beyond as needed. The ECB left interest rates at 0% for its lending operations, and for overnight deposits at 0.4%. Inflation is a special concern, as inflation was at 0.2% for August. Business activity and investment in the EU and in the U.S. is weak, and Brexit is still a concern.
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Draghi says any risks of a bubble should be tackled with tighter financial regulation and not by raising rates for fragile economies in Europe in 2014-2015. He sees frothy conditions in the market but no signs of a bubble in the eurozone.
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The initiative by Economics ministers Sigmar Gabriel and Emmanuel Macron to seek advice of 2 economists at the Berlin Institute of Governance to restore eurozone growth
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The initiative of the German and French Economics ministers Sigmar Gabriel and Emmanuel Macron to call on lecturers Pisani-Ferry and Henrik Enderlein for advice, comes at a time when Germany's growth has declined to zero or negative in the second half of 2014. Both are critics of Merkel's policies. For the first time Merkel is listening to different opinions and advice even as the government says it is sticking to balanced budgets. Finance minister Schauble continues to say investment should be mostly private. ECB president Draghi has generated the discussion by saying at a Brookings Institution conference in Washington D.C. that governments with fiscal space (referring to Germany) should provide stimulus. He added that eurozone governments that do not listen to new advice about generating growth will be swept away by public opinion. German officials privately say they can understand the Hollande government's situation with favorability ratings of 18% at the lowest level of any postwar French government. The situation is now markedly different from before with Berlusconi's old politics gone in Italy, and Matteo Renzi having obtained the largest mandate of any eurozone leader in the recent EU parliamentary elections, receiving 40% of the vote. Renzi and French premier Manuel Valls are pushing for less austerity reflected in the 2015 French budget now being reviewed in Brussels.
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A wide ranging interview with Mario Draghi by Wall Street Journal reporters Blackstone, Karnitschnig and Thomson, which gives insights on how Draghi sees solutions to the crisis in the eurozone and future policy. Draghi favors good fiscal consolidation which combines freeing up labor markets and structural changes for Italy, Spain and other southern countries, with spending reductions, and capital investment in the future as opposed to tax increases for current spending and lack of capital investment for future growth. He points out that with excessive debt to GDP ratios there is no alternative to this right kind of fiscal consolidation. The fiscal consolidation gives the structural changes time to be put in place..
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ECB's Draghi, Germany and Merkel as the ECB announces its $1 trillion bond buying program in Jan 2015- months of careful diplomacy, persuasion and compromise
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Draghi visited Merkel in Berlin, Jan 14, 2015. Months of careful planning in designing the program to meet the concerns of Germany, and an effort to calm German opinion and explain the program led to an extraordinary achievement for Draghi. German leaders Schauble, Merkel and Weidmann, only said the program should not take the pressure off governments to make structural reforms, but no leaders expressed opposition to the program. Geman newspapers also refrained from inciting German opinion about the program, And the program was presented as solely to pursue the target inflation rate of 2%, a core part of the ECB mandate.
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