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Mario Draghi can thank Jay Powell at his retirement party. The latter being so inept as to allow federal funds, of all things, to take hold of global financial attention, everyone quickly shifted and forgot what a mess the ECB’s QE restart had been. But it’s not really one or the other, is it? Once it actually finishes, the takeaway from all of September should be the world’s two most important central banks each botching their “accommodations.” It’s only a little...

Increasing expectations that Germany’s Jens Weidmann will become the next ECB president are opening up gender equality issues. Change in the ranks of the central bank’s top brass is in the air.The Eurogroup has designated Spanish finance minister Luis de Guindos as candidate for the position of Vice President of the European Central Bank to succeed Vítor Constâncio in June 2018, for a non-renewable eight-year term. This nomination has increased expectations that Bundesbank President Jens...