Tag: Central Bank
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Japan’s Monetary Policy – Thoughts on Speech at BOJ by Ben Bernanke ( Part 1 )
Ben Bernanke, the former head of the Federal Reserve recently gave a talk/speech on Japanese Monetary Policy at the BOJ recently here. For those who do not know, I am a big economics nerd especially when it comes to monetary policy and I find this talk very interesting as I…
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To Raise or not to Raise – Central Bank’s Monetary Dilemma
Just wanted to highlight this article here by Reuters on the difficulties of being a central bank. As you all know, interest rates by historical standards are at an all time low all over the world now. This has raised concerns on over-inflated stock markets, excessive credit growth and asset…
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The Implications and Rationale of a Negative Rate Policy, A Consumption Point of View
I have recently read 2 interesting posts on negative rates by Stiglitz and Bernanke . Basically, they are trying to assess the impact and effectiveness of central banks pushing down rates to negative territories. Stiglitz seems to think that it’s not going to be that impactful considering the fact that real interest rates are…
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