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Report: Ending QE
28/05/2018 - 10:23
On May 16th Leergeld.EU, an initiative from Sander Loones MEP, organised its third study day with Danielle DiMartino Booth, Geert Noels and Stéphane Rottier. Here are the videos.
‘ECB and Fed are not in touch with the real world’
18/05/2018 - 14:48
Leergeld keynote speaker Danielle DiMartino Booth spoke to the Flemish daily De Standaard. 'The whiz kids at the Federal Reserve and the ECB are too far from the common man to defend his interests.'
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” This statement by American industrialist Henry Ford certainly touches a nerve.
On Thursday, January 26th Leergeld.EU organized its first event. Jürgen Stark and Ivan Van de Cloot discussed the harmful effects of the European Central Bank's monetary policy on the Eurozone and Belgium.
The ECB’s easy money is making Europe’s economic crisis worse
03/05/2017 - 13:59
Low interest rates are just a way of temporarily postponing problems. Sustainable growth is achieved from saving, investing, labour and entrepreneurship. This opinion piece on CapX why the ECB's ultra-easy monetary policy is making Europe's economic crisis worse.
