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That is why Macron is placing such heavy emphasis on improving education at the lowest levels, and on easing the transition from school to the labor market.
I once argued that the three “arrows” of Abenomics – monetary easing, fiscal expansion, and a long-term growth strategy – should be given grades of A, B,and E, respectively.
Monetary easing gets an “A,” even though, as critics love to point out, the 2% inflation target is far from being achieved.
For example, if national inflation were higher than euro-area inflation by more than a particular amount (the threshold value), then a Council member from that country would vote in favor of monetary tightening or against monetary easing.
If it were lower than the euro-area average by more than the threshold value, then he or she would vote against monetary tightening or in favor of monetary easing.
Now, with financial tensions easing and confidence returning, Europe’s leaders should shift their focus in 2014 back to the real economy and the industrial base.
It is in easing those tensions that the EU has an important role to play.
Quantitative easing in the US cannot have been behind these large swings in global current-account balances, because America’s external deficit has not changed significantly in recent years.
The impact of the various rounds of quantitative easing on emerging markets (and on the rest of the world) has thus been approximately neutral.
After all, if four years of unconventional monetary easing by the Fed could not end America’s balance-sheet recession, why should anyone believe that the Bank of Japan’s aggressive asset purchases will quickly end that country’s two lost decades of stagnation and deflation?
The current round of monetary easing underway in many advanced countries, together with strong expectations of renminbi appreciation, are also fueling currency speculation, placing further upward pressure on the exchange rate.
So why has the ECB’s massive quantitative easing (QE) program, which has put plenty of money into circulation, failed to stimulate demand for goods and services?
The problem is that financial markets simply do not believe central bankers’ claim that their current desire to taper quantitative easing (QE) is not connected to any future desire to raise short-term interest rates.
But there is a major obstacle to easing tensions: the proposed $6.5 billion sale by the United States to Taiwan of 30 Apache attack helicopters and 330 Patriot missiles.
The economy peaked a few months later, and the Fed began aggressive easing in 2008.
When the Fed saw how weak the upturn remained, it launched a strategy of “unconventional monetary policy,” combining large-scale purchases of long-term securities (quantitative easing) with promises to keep the short-term federal funds rate extremely low for an extended period of time.
Third, the foreign-exchange channel of QE transmission – the currency weakening implied by monetary easing – is ineffective if several major central banks pursue QE at the same time.
Meanwhile, banking regulators are continuing to tighten lending standards, even though economic conditions suggest they should be easing up.
To the extent that those fears persist, additional monetary easing can be expected.
“Abenomics” in Japan has yet to yield results, and the European Central Bank is following in the footsteps of America and Japan, pursuing quantitative easing in an effort to shore up demand.
The 12-day tour of five countries – Trump’s longest foreign trip so far – will, according to official briefings, focus on easing doubts about the reliability of the United States and its leader.
Throughout last year, the US pressed China to revalue the renminbi, while China blamed the US Federal Reserve policy of “quantitative easing” for currency-market turmoil.
China interprets quantitative easing as a plot to devalue the dollar and force a revaluation of the renminbi.
Such an agreement could be defined relatively quickly, easing the pressure to rush into decisions on thorny issues relating to the EU budget, the jurisdiction of European courts, and migration, while putting in place a broader framework for cooperation.
TOKYO – Last month – just a few days before the European Central Bank announced its intention to initiate quantitative easing (QE) – I attended a seminar in Geneva with international journalists, policymakers, and investors.
The 80/20 loss-sharing arrangement with the national central banks may have made quantitative easing more palatable in Germany, but it casts doubt on the unity of the eurozone's monetary policy.
Japan’s real economy has been supported for years by fiscal deficits as high as 6% of GDP, and by extraordinary quantitative easing (QE), which BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda introduced in April 2013.
Why Is US Inflation So Low?CAMBRIDGE – Why has quantitative easing coexisted with price stability in the United States?
Their most telling complaint is that too little is known about how quantitative easing works, and that the Fed is therefore taking undue risks with the global financial system to achieve a modest juicing of the US economy.
Indeed, there is already reason enough for them to be nervous: after all, the Fed’s epic easing of financial conditions must eventually be followed by exceptionally painful tightening.
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