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28 September 2019The governor of the Bank of Italy Ignazio Visco intervened in Lanciano, in the province of Chieti, at the event "the days of the economy Marcello De Cecco". Attention to prices and their descent. This is the warning given by Visco. "The economy is problematic, we live in difficult times where prices could fall and if they go down too much we could go into deflation - the opposite of inflation - with effects on public debts".

Besides the theme of the economy, the president also spoke of politics, a subject that "cannot do without deepening, one cannot speak without knowing what one is talking about". Visco also mentioned the figure of the banker and economist Raffaele Mattioli - born at the end of the 1800s in Abruzzo, in Vasto - and of his commitment to the promotion and dissemination of the humanist culture.

But also a criticism of those economists who want to abolish the classical high school: "Maybe the delay
of Italy in technology and digitalization was his fault ". It is a" false problem "and indeed, as Mattioli's experience teaches," putting together humanistic culture, history and science "is useful.