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Given the clear benefits of nimble monetary policy, central bankers need to open their eyes to the possibilities that flexibility affords.
Most chastened of all were the bankers.
And it was not just the bankers who were in the Davos doghouse this year, but also their regulators – the central bankers.
I argued at Davos that central bankers also got it wrong by misjudging the threat of a downturn and failing to provide sufficient regulation.
Normally, a Davos audience would rally to the support of the central bankers.
But the banks that benefited from public money are now bigger than ever; opaque financial instruments are once again de rigueur; and bankers’ bonus pools are overflowing.
Bankers were once supposed to know every borrower, and to make case-by-case lending decisions.
Bankers, who may really be worried about their own bonuses, warn that higher capital requirements will force them to curtail lending, thus impeding economic growth.
Governments that guarantee bank liabilities, however, must then also demand that bankers exercise more prudence than they might on their own.
Bankers have not been so popular for a decade or more.
If that analysis is correct, we should be packing bankers off to Paris in specially chartered Eurostar trains, sealed to prevent them from attempting to jump off before they reach the Channel Tunnel.
At the recent annual meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde expressed concern about slowing growth in emerging markets and urged them to pursue additional economic reforms.
In today’s crisis, we have seen some agile and creative reactions from central bankers in advanced economies.
The three people who have articulated this problem most clearly include two of the world’s leading central bankers.
Higher leverage allows bankers to earn more money, but it can easily become excessive for shareholders – because it makes the banks more vulnerable to collapse – and it is terrible for taxpayers and all citizens, as they face massive downside costs.
Many bankers grumbled about having to throw good money after bad, but they gave in under the threat of greater regulatory intervention.
The 1980’s solution saved the banks (and the bankers) from the debt crisis, but in the long run increased burden of repayment, and in this way decreased living standards in Latin America.
In the extreme, governments can appoint central bank leaders who have a long-standing record of stating a tolerance for moderate inflation – an exact parallel to the idea of appointing “conservative” central bankers as a means of combating high inflation.
It includes actors as diverse as bankers electronically transferring sums larger than most national budgets, as well as terrorists transferring weapons or hackers disrupting Internet operations.
In the rich countries of the global north, the widening gap between rich and poor results from technological change, globalization, and the misdeeds of investment bankers.
Europe’s central bankers had been nervous, even superstitious, about the late summer long before 1931.
In the US, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan was playing golf with President Ronald Reagan, while vacationing European central bankers were hard to reach in an era before mobile telephones.
The underlying problem, though, is that both regulators and bankers continue to rely on mathematical models that promise more than they can deliver for managing financial risks.
In any systemic crisis, the combination of austerity for the many, socialism for bankers, and strangulation of local democracy creates the hopelessness and discontent that are nationalism’s oxygen.
Twenty years ago, such developments would have interested mostly bankers and businesspeople.
As a result, many central bankers have become household names; some even have tabloid nicknames, like “super Mario” Draghi.
This new prominence has also forced some central bankers to reassess their decision-making processes.
But, rather than try to define a single approach, central bankers should aim to develop individualized approaches within the orthodox monetary-policy framework, which revolves around price stability and independence.
An Inflation Reality CheckCAMBRIDGE – As inflation continues to soar everywhere, maybe the world’s central bankers need a jolt to awaken them from complacency.
Of course, curious as they might be, central bankers could decide that meeting in Harare would be too inconvenient and politically unpalatable.
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