{"id":1441,"date":"2019-10-31T13:49:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T11:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2019-10-31T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T11:49:50","slug":"the-legacy-of-super-mario-draghi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy of Super Mario Draghi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today and officially Mario Draghi delivers the leadership of the ECB to her new president, Christine\nLagarde. The achievements of the &#8220;Super Mario&#8221; of this great ECB\nleader that functioned during his tenure as a new Charlemagne by ensuring that\nthe euro area unity is implemented in its monetary policies, can be summarised\nin the fact that it delivers a Eurozone that has escaped the risk of being\ndismembered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <strong>Thanos S.\nChonthrogiannis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>\u00a9The law of intellectual property is prohibited in any way unlawful use\/appropriation of this article, with heavy civil and criminal penalties for the infringer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Eurozone was in danger of being dismembered on a continuous basis after the global financial crisis of 2008 and mainly from 2012 onwards. A financial crisis that was in its highest intensity when he took the reins of the ECB in 2011, forcing him to make the historic for Europe phrase in London (2012) &#8220;I will do whatever it takes to save the euro and believe me it will suffice&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mario_draghi-5bfd847e46e0fb0083ff34f5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1442\"\/><figcaption><strong>Mario Draghi as President of ECB<\/strong><br>Photo by website of www.investopedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then to deliver his promise he implemented a gigantic dimensional\nquantitative easing program (\u20ac2.8 trillion) managing to restore and maintain\nthe serenity in the bond markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The specific quantitative easing program he applied created 11 million jobs\nin the Eurozone and after the debt crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He succeeded in rescuing Greece, an unofficially bankrupt\nEU member state with an unsustainable debt of General government refusing when\nit was asked to interrupt liquidity in unofficially bankrupt Greek banks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, he delivers the basic euro-borrowing rate to -0,5%, causing protests\nand divisions within the ECB, as he has pledged the next ECB president to\nimplement a new smaller size compared to the previous quantitative easing\nprogram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His opponents and his unfailing critics credit him as a failure that he failed\nin technically increasing the inflation of the Eurozone, which despite negative\ninterest rates and bond markets insists on being at 0,8% when the target and based\non the ECB&#8217;s statute is 2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To increase technical inflation, a combination of monetary and fiscal\npolicies is required. In the case of the Eurozone, the common fiscal and tax\npolicy does not exist. Only the monetary policy part exists, and this has been\nimplemented exceptionally by &#8216;Super Mario&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is therefore necessary to supplement this gap in the economic policy of\nthe Euro area by creating a centralised budgetary mechanism in the form of a\ncommon federal budget and a common system of social security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this common fiscal mechanism is absent, both the quantitative easing programs of the ECB will continue to apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/187px-Lagarde_Christine_official_portrait_2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-785\" width=\"279\" height=\"358\"\/><figcaption><strong>Christine Lagarde, President of ECB<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>New ECB President Christine Lagarde is more of a politician than an\neconomist-technocrat. It comes from the legal area and may be the most\nappropriate person to take over the ECB, since it should bridge the divide\nbetween the members of the ECB and always because of the applicable monetary\npolicies of Mario Draghi (10 of the 25 ECB members turned against Mario Draghi\nat the last meeting of the ECB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christine Lagarde&#8217;s biggest challenge as a politician and head of the ECB\nis to persuade the governments of Eurozone member countries to move forward in\nshaping a common federal budget for the euro and the Eurozone that will open the\nroad later and for a common social security system throughout the Eurozone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otherwise, the mandatory applications of quantitative easing programs of\nthe ECB will continue and the failures of the governments of the Eurozone\nmember countries in creating growth, due to a lack of common fiscal and tax policy\nthroughout Eurozone, will indicate as responsible for this the new ECB President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today and officially Mario Draghi delivers the leadership of the ECB to her new president, Christine Lagarde. 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