In the ECB press conference held today in Malta, the market heard what they wanted to hear and settled in on the idea that Draghi was all set to increase the QE program and/or use the tool of negative interest rates to bring inflation up to its mandated level of 2 percent. The EURO dropped more than two percent after the Draghi press conference began as investors believed that the ECB was intent on increasing its asset purchases by the December meeting. I listened to the entire press conference but was reticent to draw that conclusion. The markets’ response to the possibility of any enhanced ECB actions poses more questions than the pricing action resolved:
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Notes From Underground: Looking Back on the European Dystopia
June 29, 2015Six months ago the world woke up to learn that the Syriza Party had been elected in Greece. It was a dream for some and a nightmare for the European ruling elite. Yes, there is a ruling elite that is very similar to what C. Wright Mills wrote about America in the 1950s. This is not conspiratorial but rather a sociological commentary and the ruling elite is not beholden to an electorate but operates with a sense of noblesse oblige. The Brussels eurocrats are in the image of Plato’s Philospher King, only there are too many Kings all believing themselves to be the most capable ruler. For two years I have written about that the European leaders feared REFERENDA more than anything for direct democracy was an affront to the wisdom of the self-anointed elite. The European project was too important to be left to the capricious voters.