Draghi, we have a problem.
The European Central Bank’s balance sheet has reached a new record high this week – surpassing the chaotic expansion peak in 2012 – as Mario Draghi prepares to unleash TLTRO-II, which will definitely increase this time (just like LTRO and NIRP didn’t!)
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“Fool me once” in 2011/12 but not in 2015/16.
Given the utter failure to create any ‘real’ economic gains via the expansion of the ECB balance sheet, the plunge in stock prices (and thus crushing the trickle-down wealth-creation mandate) leaves Draghi in the same boat as Yellen – utterly impotent.
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Which is ironic because this is what Draghi just said…
- *DRAGHI SAYS ECB ACTION PUT RECOVERY ON MORE SOLID FOOTING
- *DRAGHI SAYS GROWTH, INFLATION WOULD BE LOWER WITHOUT ECB ACTION
Though we’ll never know, can you imagine just how bad things are in reality?
