Thursday, August 30, 2012

Draghi - Die Zeit and exceptional measures

Yet it should be understood that fulfilling our mandate sometimes requires us to go beyond standard monetary policy tools. When markets are fragmented or influenced by irrational fears, our monetary policy signals do not reach citizens evenly across the euro area. We have to fix such blockages to ensure a single monetary policy and therefore price stability for all euro area citizens. This may at times require exceptional measures. But this is our responsibility as the central bank of the euro area as a whole.

-Mario Draghi  The future of the euro: stability through change in "Die Ziet"

Article has caused a market stir because it talks about exceptional measures by the ECB. however, the article is more important to because it lays out a pragmatism by the Draghi toward the Euro. The Euro should not be broken up and it should not be driven to full integration. There will be bumps in the road towards greater integration and this gradualism was recognized with the start of the Euro. 

There is room for continued gradualism in the current environment which is the policy approach that seems to be reasonable and constructive. Unfortunately, there is not road map to get to a more fully integrated fiscal situation.

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