Central banks also influence interest rates and the pace
of money creation by buying and selling securities through open market operations.
To prefer 5 % to the current 4 % nominal GDP growth going forward, and a fortiori to ask for a
burst of money creation to get us back to the previous 5 % bubble path, is to ask for chronically higher monetary expansion and inflation that will do more harm than good.
The elevated price of gold these past several years probably best reflects the markets» concern over global central banks»
use of money creation to buy assets.
Positive Money polled MPs on their
understanding of money creation, and only 1 in 10 were able to correctly identify that money is created when banks make loans, and that when loans are repaid, the money disappears.
In this article, he presents arguments in
support of money creation by cooperation between central banks and governments that bypasses private banks and instead is directed straight into the economy — a process that has been term «quantitative easing for the people».