The huge risk facing Europe is that debt problems and slower growth will create a downward spiral that policy makers may not be able to stop.
On Coleman's desk is a spiral-bound policy document, the first of three such case files, each an inch thick.
While Draghi has argued that quantitative easing is needed to prevent the euro area slipping into a deflationary spiral, German policy makers say it eases the pressure for economic reform.
The possibility that the United States, like Japan, could be at risk of a deflationary spiral that defies traditional policy remedies was assumed, if largely left unspoken, here.
Dissatisfaction with government policies and spiralling prices has resulted in walkouts by everybody from railway drivers to TV producers and pharmacists.
The number of pupils being repeatedly suspended from school for short periods has spiralled under a government policy to cut down the number of permanent exclusions, new figures suggest.
With a war in Iraq and looming postwar costs, growing pressures for a prescription drug benefit, increased expenses for domestic security and a ballooning budget deficit, Congress must exercise restraint on both revenues and spending to prevent fiscal policy from spiraling out of control.
But asymmetric tax policy that spirals downward is not good for the country.
Three international backs had left as a result of this policy, a downward spiral was in motion and the atmosphere was riddled with fear.
The sheik and the mayor, taking notes in spiral notebooks, complained about the policy, imposed by the Coalition Authority, that prohibits former Baath Party members to hold any positions in the new government.
"Jean-Marie Le Pen seems to be in a downward spiral somewhere between a scorched-earth policy and political suicide," she said.
