When is good economic news a reason to worry?
When you’re a central banker fighting a slump toward deflation, or broadly falling prices, in a time that oil prices are plummeting. And that is the situation that Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, faced as he announced the results of the bank’s latest policy meeting on Thursday. How he wrestles with that problem will help determine the outlook for Europe’s flailing economy.
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