Economics
Draghi Plays Chess in Economy Class After Journey to QE
Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank.
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One of the final passengers to board an Alitalia flight from Frankfurt to Rome last Thursday evening had a heavy day behind him.
Taking a window seat, he removed his jacket, unflipped an Ipad and began a game of chess -- something he’d been doing in one form or another for most of the past year. Mario Draghi, hours after pushing through the biggest decision in Europe’s monetary history with a trillion-euro pledge to fight economic decline, was flying home in economy class.