Sentences with phrase «central bankers seem»

With Brexit representing merely the latest shock, economists warn the planet is at risk of sliding into a low - growth trap in which companies retrench, wages are slashed and consumers spend less — all at a time when central bankers seem powerless to do anything about it.

But Nabiullina and her central bankers seem to be rising to that role when their country needs it most.

Not exact matches

The Bank of International Settlements, known as the «central bankers» central bank,» seems to share this concern.

In an exclusive interview with CNBC on the sidelines of the G - 20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers in Moscow, Aso said the communique released seemed to validate Japan's motives for its recent economic policies, but added that this does not represent an endorsement.

In her first congressional hearing as nominee to become the world's most powerful central banker, Yellen didn't seem in a hurry to scale back the Fed's massive bond buys, also known as quantitative easing (QE).

«The capacity of central bankers to do that, whether they plan to respond by varying some kind of capital requirement or whether they plan to respond by varying interest rates, seems to be to be very much in question,» Summers said.

The negative investment thesis seems to rest upon confidence that central bankers, and the Fed in particular, will steer a course away from radical monetary experimentation that will return to a normal structure of interest rates and robust economic growth.

The volatility seems to be a consequence of a world in which prices are being driven by the money - printing, or lack thereof, by central bankers.

Why does it seem that anytime someone mentions a currency war they only talk about who the losers are going to be from central banker actions?

When central bankers who issue fiat money have the discretion to alter monetary policy from month to month, to do whatever seems desirable at the moment, they also have a problem of the same sort.

Instead of continuing on from last year where things seemed to be in their proper order, we have started with recurrent volatility, political incompetence, an increase in terrorist incidents around the world, currency instability in both the developed and developing markets, and more than a faint scent of deflation creeping into the nostrils and minds of central bankers.

So using this as an indicator in the way we have been thinking really seems irrelevant now as central bankers continue to hurt any sign of bearish price action.

Earlier this year, it seemed almost certain that the central bankers at the U.S. Federal Reserve would go ahead with regular 25 - basis - point increases to benchmark interest rates.