
Taking a page from the US Federal Reserve, the Eurozone’s European Central Bank (ECB) is widely believed to be in the process of putting together a multi-billion euro quantitative easing stimulus package. The hope is that by buying billions of ECB bonds at attractive rates using euros printed out of thin blue air, this will unleash a huge amount of liquidity that can help the broader Eurozone economy. Primarily, ECB planners hope that the flood of cheap cash would be used to buy real estate, invest in businesses, buy corporate bonds, and otherwise engage in activities that would boost the overall Eurozone economy. After all, the current US recovery is regarded by some economists as the result of the US Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing policies. Here are three reasons why the ECB might not get the same results.