Economics

Hawkish Former ECB Officials Lambast Draghi’s Monetary Policy

Signatories include former chief economists Issing and Stark
They criticize ECB’s inflation diagnosis, asset purchases

Mario Draghi
Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg

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By Yuko Takeo

October 4, 2019 at 9:28 AM UTC

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European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s latest monetary-stimulus initiative was lambasted by a group of former policy makers criticizing the institution’s stance and its approach to its inflation goal.