The ECB and the Euro Crisis
Here is an excellent commentary by Andrew Watt on the new ECB commitment to buy bonds without limit to reduce interest rates on the government debt of troubled members of the Euro zone. While an important and necessary step, this still means that deflationary austerity will continue, and that there will be no offsetting stimulus in surplus countries. And he notes that the ECB has set no target for interest rate spreads.
I admit that I am not a formally trained economist, although I have been an avid student of macroeconomics since 2008, and do have much training and experience in engineering forensics. I disagree with the ECB’s latest round of treatments, which is based on a flawed diagnosis of the source of the crisis. Steve Keen makes the most sense both with his diagnosis (too much private debt), and with his suggested treatments (e.g. – modern debt jubilee).