ECB resistance wavers as pressure mounts to seize Russian assets

by | Mar 10, 2025 | Baltics, banks, Bonds, Central Banker, Central banks, Climate change, Collateral, Currency, Debt, Defense, Digital, Dumping/Duties, Economic governance, Economic sanctions, Eurozone, farmers, financial services, Financial stability, Foreign Affairs, Global economy, inflation, Markets, monetary policy, payments, Platforms, policy, Politics, security, stability, trade, Trade UK, War economy

Cracks are appearing in the European Central Bank’s united front as the urgent need for cash to rearm Europe threatens to overpower legalistic and technocratic concerns about how the single currency should be managed. The implicit withdrawal of American security...

ECB cuts deposit rate again as Europe heads into uncertain future  

by | Mar 6, 2025 | Central Banker, Central banks, Competition and Industrial Policy, Debt, Eurozone, financial services, growth, inflation, interest rates, monetary policy, trade

FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank cut its key deposit rate by 25 basis points to 2.50 percent, but its boss, Christine Lagarde, said the Bank may pause cuts as growing uncertainty clouds the economic outlook. “If the data indicates to us that in order to reach...

ECB cuts rates again as stagnant eurozone braces for Trump blast

by | Jan 31, 2025 | Central Banker, Competition and Industrial Policy, Economics, Europe’s economic recovery, Eurozone, financial services, growth, inflation, interest rates, monetary policy, Quantitative easing, trade

The European Central Bank cut its key interest rates by a quarter-point, as greater confidence that inflation is beaten gives it more space to support an economy threatened by a growing array of risks. The move takes the Bank’s key deposit rate down to 2.75 percent,...

Webinar Summary: The Health of the Economy – Inflation, Regulation, and How to Fix Europe’s Underperforming Economic Growth

by | Jan 29, 2025 | Central Banking, economic growth, economy, EU, european union, Fiscal policy, inflation, monetary policy, North America, regions, regulation, US

In a recent webinar hosted by ECIPE, John Cochrane, a leading economist and the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, discussed pressing economic issues, including inflation, deficits, and the outlook for economic...