Several days ago, the ECB sparked the ire of pretty much anyone with a working frontal lobe when it made the indefensible claim that, drumroll, QE had helped reduce inequality. That’s right, reduce.
http://www.longroom.com/discussion/1355567/here-we-go-fed-finds-that-negative-rates-would-have-helped-the-recovery

Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.