Sentences with phrase «why most central banks»

It's why most central banks formally target a 2 percent inflation rate, signaling that they intend to find a balance between too much and too little monetary expansion.

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As a result, primary dealers are the most influential non-governmental players in global financial markets, which is why they supposedly must meet certain liquidity and quality requirements and provide central banks with analysis and market intelligence on the state of the worldwide markets.

Displaying what Donald (now Dierdre) McCloskey once characterized as «the intellectual range from M to N,» there is no real comparison of the Fed's record with that of the system that preceded it; no mention of other monetary systems circa 1913 that had better records than the United States (most pertinently, that of Canada); not nearly enough acknowledgment of the great harm the Fed has caused more than once in its history; no discussion of why a few other central banks — though surprisingly, only a few — have performed better than the Fed; and no inkling that central banking may not be the best of all possible systems in the best of all possible worlds.