Why in the light of lacklustre results the faith in central banks is fading away

The great monetary experiment as Brendan Brown calls the Fed’s quantitative eas-ing is less under intellectual pressure because of insufficient results in the US. The upswing in the U.S. economy seems robust. But the poor performance of its Euro-pean disciple ECB whose Public sector purchase programm (PSPP) as the first con-troversial QE experiment has produced nothing but inflating complaints in the German Constitutional Court sparks off a large debate on the prerogatives of central banks and their accountability. There is neither increase of inflation nor an upswing of growth due to a more entrepreneural attitude of banks in the lending business. (Read more)