The ECB started its much anticipated bond buying program this week, the goal being to buy up sovereign bonds, thereby lowering interest rates, and "stimulating the economy"
The Post-2008 European wreckovery visualized:
German Bond Yields, since 2008
Interest rates are only about 3% lower than they were during Lehman...
Interest rates are only about 3% lower than they were during Lehman...
"A liquidity trap is a situation, described in Keynesian economics, in which injections of cash into the private banking system by a central bank fail to decrease interest rates and hence make monetary policy ineffective. Common characteristics of a liquidity trap are interest rates that are close to zero and fluctuations in the money supply that fail to translate into fluctuations in price levels."
Japanification: A society that lies to itself constantly while everything goes down the drain.