Summers and
other secular stagnation supporters argue that the level of interest rates needed to bring the economy back to full capacity is below the effective lower bound for monetary policy, so central banks are powerless to stimulate enough demand to use up excess supply.
Not exact matches
For these and
other companies, Alberta continues to offer an island of pre-2008 growth in a world overshadowed by
secular stagnation.
While many
other people have referred to this period as the «new normal» or «
secular stagnation», I've referred to it as the «Great Normalization».
The
other reason rising inflation is a good thing is that it suggests
secular stagnation — a permanent, low - growth regime — is ending.
Unfortunately, the Fed and
other policy setters remain committed to traditional paradigms and so are acting in ways that make
secular stagnation more likely.
The point which Ben very appropriately emphasizes is that unmanaged
secular stagnation in one place is contagious — that a higher level of saving over investment leading to low interest rates in one place, leads to current account surplus, leads to a capital outflow, which then leads to currency depreciation, leads to currency appreciation in
other places, and leads therefore to spreading low demand and low interest rates everywhere.