In retrospect, Mario Draghi will be remembered as the central banker who was always willing to go the extra mile to backstop the historic asset bubble that the ECB inflated since he replaced Jean-Claude Trichet in 2011, making the European Central Bank the biggest hedge fund in the world with more than $5 trillion in assets assets. As shown below, since his arrived, the ECB's balance sheet more than doubled from €2 trillion to above €4.5 trillion by Draghi's departure in Oct 2019. But if one asks Draghi, the man who once famously declared he would do "whatever it takes" (a phrase that has since been so overused ... (full story)