Submitted by Tyler Durden: The case for ultra easy monetary
policies has been well enough made to convince the central banks of most
Advanced Economies to follow such polices. They have succeeded
thus far in avoiding a collapse of both the global economy and the
financial system that supports it. Nevertheless, it is argued in this
stunningly accurate paper via none other than the Dallas Fed (and BIS economist William White), that the capacity of such policies to stimulate “strong, sustainable and balanced growth” in the global economy is limited. Moreover, ultra easy monetary policies have a wide variety of undesirable medium term effects - the unintended consequences. They
create malinvestments in the real economy, threaten the health of
financial institutions and the functioning of financial markets,
constrain the “independent“ pursuit of price stability by central banks,
encourage governments to refrain from confronting sovereign debt
problems in a timely way, and redistribute income and wealth in a highly
regressive fashion. While each medium term effect on its own might
be questioned, considered all together they support strongly the
proposition that aggressive monetary easing in economic downturns is not “a free lunch”. Absolute must read!
As we noted earlier:
Dallas Fed QE
...well he won't. So luckily the Dallas Fed will do it for him...Hopefully instead of setting up his own irrelevant strawmen, and then knocking them down with a Fed-dictated script, [WSJ's Jon] Hilsenrath, and his profound financial journalist experience, can at least pretend to tackle the questions noted above...
Dallas Fed QE
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