What also needs to be jettisoned from the ECB’s communications policy is its obsession with the short run. With the United States now in recession (and the possibility of a deep recession not that remote), it is striking how positive ECB officials sound about the European economy: Europe’s “economic fundamentals are sound,” the economy is “robust,” economic performance is “just below potential,” and so on.
应该从ECB的沟通政策中剔除的还有对短期的迷恋。随着美国经济陷入衰退（而且可能不久还会陷入更深的衰退），ECB的官员们对欧洲经济的乐观令人吃惊：欧洲的“经济基本面是好的”，经济本身是“健康的”，经济表现“只是未发挥出潜力”等等。