Good news: welcome to the first chairwoman of the Federal Reserve.

Me advocating expansionary money is the same as europe advocating tight money policy?

Wow, ok.

You're pretty out of your element here.

 

No, but your methodology of ruling out better alternatives relies on the same specious "see things got better eventually " approach. You and Trichet are sympatico in that sense

 

I can tell you what it cost Japan. Two decades.

Hi mr. Clutch - the tea party called from 2009 and they want their boring cliches back. Do be a dear and throw in a tricorner hat.

 

It certainly can, but why would you want it to? It's slower and much less direct (stimulating banks takes time to flow down to the rest of the economy), and it leaves much less flexibility if there's another downturn. And driving down interest rates has a lot of negative side effects, like making saving more difficult, forcing pension funds into lower returns or higher risk, etc.