This is Mario Draghi at the ECB’s press conference yesterday:

“Meanwhile, inflation expectations for the euro area over the medium to long term continue to be firmly anchored in line with our aim of maintaining inflation rates below, but close to, 2%. Looking ahead, the Governing Council is strongly determined to safeguard this anchoring.”

You got to ask yourself why you would ease monetary policy if you don’t want inflation expectations to increase. And ask yourself if the market will believe this will work if the ECB is so eager to say that the policy will not increase inflation expectations.

It all just feel so Japanese – pre-Kuroda…

HT Nicolas Goetzmann