https://notayesmanseconomics.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/the-swedish-economic-experiment-of-negative-interest-rates-in-a-boom-goes-on/
Today opens with relative calm in world financial markets although a
little care is need as many central bankers are gathered at the annual
symposium in Jackson Hole. After all we know that “loose talk costs
lives” from the wartime warning. A subject that may well come up in
private discussions is the monetary policy being deployed by the
Riksbank in Sweden although it will be in its absence as I do not
believe its representatives are in attendance. As an undercut to the
discussions about promises and hints made by the Bank of England
(Governor Carney is present) and the US Federal Reserve about
interest-rate rises the reality of the Riksbank cutting interest-rates
into negative territory in response to favourable economic conditions is
an actual ying to their promised yang.
Indeed the whole concept of an exit strategy from “extraordinary
monetary conditions” has in many ways been converted to an entry
strategy by the Swedes. Perhaps they have been listening to too much
Abba.
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