When
we think about monetary policy going forward, the impact of that transition is a question mark.
From this vantage point, stability is really just a way of describing or qualifying «expectations,» which are a formal part of the way the Bank
thinks about monetary policy and the transmission mechanism (i.e., how a change in the target for the overnight rate has an effect on the real economy).
Not exact matches
Yellen won't take questions after she speaks at the Boston Fed this morning, but traders will be looking for any clues in her speech
about her
thinking on
monetary policy.
In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials
thinking more
about low - income Americans as they conduct
monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.
More and more, Fed officials are beginning to
think seriously
about a dramatic change to
monetary policy.
In the time I have, I will discuss how our
thinking on the interactions between
monetary policy and financial stability has been evolving, tell you
about some interesting recent research by our staff and touch on some questions that have yet to be resolved.
But, in
thinking about how to prevent financial crises, it's also natural to look at
monetary policy.
By conducting
policy in a transparent way and communicating what is important in determining the central bank's reaction function, I
think policymakers can strike the best balance between a
monetary policy that fully incorporates the complexity of the world as it is, while, at the same time, retaining considerable clarity
about how the FOMC is likely to respond to changing circumstances.
Just as the events of the 1970s and emergence of stagflation throughout the industrial world, led to new
policy paradigms, I believe that recent events will force us to develop new approaches to
thinking about economic fluctuations and inflation which will, in turn, drive major changes in
thinking about fiscal and
monetary policy.
When it comes to
thinking about what could be done, it's important to remember that
monetary policy isn't the only game in town.
He breaks down the role of
monetary and fiscal
policy in generating growth, and what investors need to
think about when such
policies aren't delivering it.
The
monetary policy people
think about output gaps and inflation, and the financial stability people
think about asset prices and leverage and how to strengthen resilience.
We
think the speculation
about a potential future tightening of
monetary policy by the ECB — whether in the form of a tapering of bond purchases or a rise in interest rates — has moved too far ahead of the economic and political realities within the eurozone.
«He is in a unique position to redefine the way we
think analytically
about how
monetary policy operates in the real world and to do it in a way that other academics will have to pay attention to.»
«We
think this helps people understand better the
thinking behind the decision and provides useful information to market participants
about our risk management approach to
monetary policy.»
In conclusion, I do not believe you can accurately state whether gold is undervalued or overvalued - you must make judgments based on what you
think about the future of the market and of
monetary policy, but there are too many variables to be accurate consistently.
«I
think there's a sense that
monetary policy can't have as big an impact as it could have had a decade ago,» he said, «meaning we are going to have to
think about fiscal measures that can make a difference.»
Moreover, Jordan said that «The SNB isn't
thinking about changing its
monetary policy,» adding that «It wouldn't be a good idea now to tighten
monetary conditions.»
And all the more so, given that the Swissy was out of commission as a safe - haven at the time, apparently because SNB Boss - Man Thomas Jordan was cited in a Bloomberg report as saying that even though there was «a certain decline in the franc's overvaluation, the franc remains highly valued» and that «The situation on foreign - exchange markets remains fragile,» which is why the «The SNB isn't
thinking about changing its
monetary policy» and will continue with its negative rates and its
policy of intervening (* cough * currency manipulation * cough *) in the forex market.
Gold is selling off as uncertainty grows
about the identity and
thinking of the next Fed chairman,
about the efficacy of QE and
about the world's tolerance to endure even the slightest tightening in the Fed's unprecedentedly easy
monetary policy.