Gold bugs like Sprott have long warned about the impact of inflation,
central bank policy measures and government spending on the value of fiat national currencies.
Not exact matches
He said the
central bank will be spending time on investigating whether there is a better way to
measure trend inflation than the core rate
policy makers follow now.
Mired in a world of low growth, low inflation and low interest rates, officials from the Federal Reserve,
Bank of Japan and the European
Central Bank said their efforts to bolster the economy through monetary
policy may falter unless elected leaders stepped forward with bold
measures.
All manner of
policy agencies, senior political figures, think tanks and the head of the People's
Bank of China (China's central bank) have sounded warning bells, and introduced all manner of measures to control lend
Bank of China (China's
central bank) have sounded warning bells, and introduced all manner of measures to control lend
bank) have sounded warning bells, and introduced all manner of
measures to control lending.
Central banks had eased monetary
policy aggressively, including taking short - term interest rates to near zero in several cases, and some were considering or implementing «unconventional»
measures to deliver additional stimulus.
This might mean, for example, that the
central bank would need to run a more stimulative
policy than it would have otherwise to offset the effect of macroprudential
policies, and the macroprudential authority would impose more stringent
measures than it would have otherwise to counteract the leverage and risk taking generated by looser monetary
policy.
This event should not be overlooked as it is one of the most important
policy measures from a major global
central bank in the last ten years.
The governing council of the European
Central Bank next meets on October 4 for non-monetary
measures followed by the monetary -
policy meeting on October 26.
«By their unconventional monetary
policy measures central banks have increasingly taken over critical market functions.
Central banks are nearing the limits of extraordinary monetary easing, as monetary
policy is becoming less effective in boosting growth and additional easing
measures may have diminishing returns — and unintended consequences.
Some would argue that by acting cautiously on balance sheet normalization (without actively countering impacts of ECB
policy measures), Fed policymakers have partially ceded control of financial conditions to foreign monetary authorities, but the same can be said about other
central banks as well, for long - term rates are correlated among advanced economies:
Central banks are struggling to balance a desire to unwind unconventional
policies and normalize interest rates with a continued need for stimulus
measures in most economies.
The
central bank cited three main reasons why it expects risks to mitigate over time: income growth, new mortgage finance
policy measures and higher mortgage rates.
Recent
policy actions, including today's rate reduction, coordinated interest rate cuts by
central banks, extraordinary liquidity
measures, and official steps to strengthen financial systems, should help over time to improve credit conditions and promote a return to moderate economic growth.
Researchers interested in exploring the relationship between macroeconomic performance and the quality of monetary institutions should consider augmenting the Fraser and Heritage data with additional institutional indicators, such as
measures of
central bank independence, the use of monetary
policy rules, freedom to use competing forms of money, and exchange rate regimes.
A non-standard monetary
policy — or unconventional monetary
policy — is a tool used by a
central bank or other monetary authority that falls out of line with traditional
measures.
This could present challenges for future equity market performance as major
central banks gradually move to normalize extraordinarily supportive
policy measures.
But we do not believe the ECB will contemplate a major change in direction, since in the continued absence of a significant fiscal stimulus, the region's economic performance remains too weak for the
central bank to risk
measures that could create, however inadvertently, a degree of tightening in monetary
policy.
For example, while the United States is tightening its monetary
policy, the
central banks of Europe and Japan both have launched aggressive stimulus
measures since 2014 to jumpstart economic growth.
Although markets generally seem to have been underwhelmed by the latest monetary
policy announcements from the European
Central Bank (ECB), I believe the
measures unveiled by its president, Mario Draghi, are exactly what the eurozone economy needs, and are exactly what the market should have expected.
Of course, markets have long known that eventually, after years of
central bank liquidity injections, those stimulus
measures would need to be unwound - but as we get closer to
policy normalization, Jens Moestrup Rasmussen expects investor nervousness to be on the rise.
Recent
policy actions, including today's rate reduction, coordinated interest rate cuts by
central banks, extraordinary liquidity
measures, and official steps to strengthen financial systems, should help over time to improve credit conditions and promote a return to moderate economic growth.