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As European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has been promising (threatening?) for more than a year, the ECB finally is about to begin a quantitative easing program. The program most likely will run for two years.
With the national debt now exceeding $18 trillion and having jumped 70% in the last six years, there are many cries for a return to the gold standard, which, it is believed, would limit government spending that has resulted in the massive increases in the national debt. A gold standard is a monetary system in
“The slump in global oil prices,” reports the Financial Times (1/6/15), bolsters “the case for an ambitious programme of government bond buying by the European Central Bank.” In Germany, the Eurozone’s largest economy, consumer prices in December rose only 0.1 percent versus 0.5 percent the year to November.
