With its two-pillar strategy that allocates an important role to the analysis of money and credit in its monetary analysis, the ECB has built up the necessary expertise to investigate and examine global liquidity with a perspective to maximize its information content for policy makers. This helps to full its primary mandate of price stability and is a major contribution to financial stability.
I would tell them that the best way to improve the return on their savings is for the crisis to be solved as quickly as possible. This means that the economic reforms have to be implemented in the stressed countries, but it also means that we have to complete the measures designed to make the euro area as a whole safer.