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As the US Federal Reserve inches closer to achieving its targets for the domestic economy, it faces growing pressure to normalize
monetary
policy.
On the contrary, America’s
monetary
authority has all but explicitly recognized a new mandate: promoting global financial stability.
Its role has expanded over time, and the Fed, along with many of its developed-country counterparts, has engaged in increasingly unconventional
monetary
policy – quantitative easing, credit easing, forward guidance, and so on – since the 2008 global financial crisis.
As a result, the Fed is effectively trapped between a US economy that increasingly justifies normalization of
monetary
policy and the interest of fragile global markets – in which about 60% of the world’s transactions are dollar-denominated – in further dovishness.
After a multi-year bull market in equities and fixed-income securities, stimulated by the very
monetary
policies the Fed is trying to leave behind, there is no valuation support to dampen the reaction.
In the absence of genuinely robust global growth, which is unlikely in the near term, financial markets are relying on extremely loose
monetary
policy to prop up prices.
With a lack of traditional rate-cutting firepower, the next downturn could be longer than usual, compelling further reliance on unconventional
monetary
policy – even beyond the negative nominal interest rates now being pursued in Europe and Japan.
With the Fed deciding in their just-concluded April meeting, yet again, to hold rates, their dilemma is set only to intensify this year: normalize
monetary
policy in line with domestic fundamentals, or cede to the pressures of global financial markets.
Space at the table for China could be obtained if the eurozone countries, signaling their commitment to the common currency, agreed to surrender their individual seats in exchange for one representing the entire
monetary
union.
But, again, what is this if not an investment in a more stable global
monetary
system?
Many emerging markets have become less vulnerable to external financing shocks and the threat of sharp, unanticipated changes in developed-economy
monetary
policies.
John Maynard Keynes argued that
monetary
policy was ineffective during the Great Depression.
That is why good
monetary
policy aims to prevent bubbles from arising.
The best that can be said for
monetary
policy over the last few years is that it prevented the direst outcomes that could have followed Lehman Brothers’ collapse.
But, despite very aggressive
monetary
policy by many central banks – successive rounds of “quantitative easing” have doubled, or even tripled, the money supply in most advanced economies – global inflation is actually low and falling further.
How to Avoid a Double-Dip Global RecessionNEW YORK -- There is an ongoing debate among global policymakers about when and how fast to exit from the strong
monetary
and fiscal stimulus that prevented the Great Recession of 2008-2009 from turning into a new Great Depression.
If they take away the
monetary
and fiscal stimulus too soon – when private demand remains shaky – there is a risk of falling back into recession and deflation.
First, in countries where early fiscal austerity is necessary to prevent a fiscal crisis,
monetary
policy should be much easier – via lower policy rates and more quantitative easing – to compensate for the recessionary and deflationary effects of fiscal tightening.
Fourth, countries with current-account surpluses should let their undervalued currencies appreciate, while the ECB should follow an easier
monetary
policy that accommodates a gradual further weakening of the euro to restore competiveness and growth in the eurozone.
Exchange-rate fluctuations pose a serious short-term challenge for
monetary
policy, given the potential of the resulting price changes to spur inflation.
The New
Monetary
DisorderPRINCETON – Currency chaos is back, highlighting demands for a revised international
monetary
order.
President Richard Nixon hailed the 1971 Smithsonian agreement as “the most significant
monetary
agreement in the history of the world.”
The second, and better, approach lies in agreements in each country about what the appropriate basis for
monetary
policy should be.
If those agreements have widespread acceptance and mutual consistency, the result will be a stable international
monetary
system.
The search for a
monetary
rule during the latter period had two phases: in the earliest attempt to construct a basis for stable
monetary
policy, the emphasis was on
monetary
targeting.
Many Europeans tried to argue in recent years that
monetary
policy should also take asset-price developments into account, whereas American policymakers and academics largely resisted this approach.
Formulating
monetary
policy has become a more complex process, but also a more politicized process, which is why it is likely to become more chaotic, with sharp differences between national approaches.
As divergences become explicit, the demand for a wider political debate about
monetary
policy and for political involvement in its formulation will become more intense.
The Bank of England’s
Monetary
Policy Committee has often been presented as a pioneer in making
monetary
policy transparent.
If it is clear who will vote for which measure, there will be increased demand for a public debate about who should be chosen: why not elect the MPC, since it is effectively a
monetary
government?
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