Sentences with phrase «whether central bankers»

While that gathering took place before last week's stronger employment report, investors will be looking for any hints on whether central bankers were starting to consider a path toward raising interest rates.

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«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.

Confronted with the choice of whether to «lean» or to «clean» — leaning against emerging financial imbalances by keeping interest rates higher than they otherwise would be or cleaning up in the event the risks they create are realized by providing stimulus — central bankers at that time generally agreed that cleaning would be best.

European Central Bank governing council member Ewald Nowotny said on Thursday that legislators and central bankers are discussing whether they should intervene to regulate cryptocurrencies, as China already haCentral Bank governing council member Ewald Nowotny said on Thursday that legislators and central bankers are discussing whether they should intervene to regulate cryptocurrencies, as China already hacentral bankers are discussing whether they should intervene to regulate cryptocurrencies, as China already has done.

I've long wondered that after four years of unprecedented monetary policy with still very tepid at best economic growth, just whether investors would lose faith in the Fed (and really global central bankers for that matter) and politicians.

While it's tough to look at that chart and not think this is a speculative mania, there is something about Bitcoin that's captured the public's imagination — whether it's the varied potential applications of the underlying blockchain technology, the idea of Bitcoin as «digital gold,» or the promise of a currency immune to central banker meddling.