As it happened, I had a fairly lively and animated discussion with the governor on monetary policy, my favourite hobby horse. |
Many economics textbooks fail to mention QE, suggesting that this is a new and extreme form of monetary policy. |
Of course many of us have to relearn these lessons in a new cycle because changes in monetary policy seldom suit our book at the time. |
The Fed said recently that monetary policy can be accommodative for some time. |
A lot of the excess liquidity you speak of can be traced to the aggressiveness of their monetary policy. |
We have to be cognizant of those lags and move monetary policy anticipating that it has a lagged effect on the economy. |