Op-Ed Columnist - A Continent Adrift - NYTimes.com
As usual, a great Krugman column. this time, though political structures are the stumbling block to effective response. Interesting.
You might expect monetary policy to be more forceful. After all, while there isn’t a European government, there is a European Central Bank. But the E.C.B. isn’t like the Fed, which can afford to be adventurous because it’s backed by a unitary national government — a government that has already moved to share the risks of the Fed’s boldness, and will surely cover the Fed’s losses if its efforts to unfreeze financial markets go bad. The E.C.B., which must answer to 16 often-quarreling governments, can’t count on the same level of support.
Europe, in other words, is turning out to be structurally weak in a time of crisis.
via nytimes.com
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