European Central Bank sees pressure ease (AP)

Looks like the Europeans -- or at least the head of their Central Bank -- want us to reappoint Ben Bernanke:

Haruhiko Kuroda showed Wednesday he’s following in the footsteps of Ben Bernanke and Mario Draghi as he swung the Bank of Japan from incremental moves to unprecedented stimulus at the governor’s first policy meeting. The BOJ will double the monetary base by the end of 2014 through buying government bonds, the central bank said in Tokyo, in Japan’s biggest round of quantitative easing. JPMorgan Chase & Co. said the Japanese and U.S. central banks are now “in the same camp” when it comes to monetary stimulus.

John M. Mason submits: How important is reputation in monetary circles?I believe that the general movement in the value of the Euro relative to the United States dollar over the past seven months or so gives a picture of how the reputation of a central banker, when compared with his peers, can be reflected in financial markets.