Time for Super Mario to save day

With anaemic inflation and Ukraine stalling a European recovery, the time is right for the ECB to act, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

The guns of August and the lack of buttery business prospects have sent investors across Europe into a tail spin. Time for Mr Draghi to start greasing those monetary wheels?

This month, Europeans are marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War by staging another war, a proper conflict complete with real blood. So history is repeating itself, only this time the tragedy is on a smaller scale.