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And there is now less reason to worry that a massive fiscal-stimulus program will push up the dollar and force the Fed to raise rates.
Because the US Senate’s budget-reconciliation rules require all tax cuts to be revenue-neutral after ten years, Republicans will either have to cut tax rates by far less than they had originally intended, or settle for temporary and limited tax cuts that aren’t paid for.
It is the one policy that will always stimulate nominal demand, even when other policies – such as debt-financed fiscal deficits or negative interest rates – are ineffective.
If our only way out is interest rates negative enough to re-stimulate that rapid growth, we are doomed to repeat past mistakes.
And if Takahashi had stimulated the economy with negative interest rates, and then sought to reverse that policy, he would have met the same end.
Indeed, inflation was finally crushed in the early 1980s, when central banks raised interest rates to whatever level was required to constrain nominal demand, even if it led to high transitional unemployment.
More recently, technological advances have become an increasingly important driver of structural transformation, with information technology and job automation reducing wage rates for low-skill jobs and further eroding the political and market power of organized labor.
As a result, while central bankers before the 2008 financial crisis viewed themselves as heroes in a battle against inflation, they increasingly found themselves offsetting structural deflationary pressures by setting interest rates low enough to stimulate credit booms.
The best way to achieve that is not through the current mix of ultra-low interest rates and quantitative easing.
Likewise, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has provided monetary support, gradually lowering interest rates and reserve requirements.
Interest rates will have to be slashed, and the ECB will have to follow up with large-scale asset purchases like those recently announced by the Swiss National Bank.
Interest rates around the world are poised to rise.
Short-term rates have gone so low since the worldwide recession of 2001 - 1% and 2%, respectively, in the United States and the Eurozone, and practically zero in Japan - that a strengthening world economy will force central banks to tighten the monetary reins.
Australia's central bank has already been raising rates since May 2002, and Great Britain's since November 2003.
Given the tendency of central banks to change interest rates gradually, any change of direction likely means more changes in the same direction later.
In theory, when interest rates go up, there is reason to believe that asset prices will go down.
The higher interest rates go, the better are investments in bonds, which compete with investments in other assets such as stocks or homes.
Higher interest rates also raise the cost of borrowing to buy these assets, which may diminish demand for them, exerting downward pressure on their prices.
When interest rates fall, the opposite effect on asset prices may be predicted.
In fact, the history of the stock market's reactions to changing interest rates is mixed.
But then the NASDAQ index fell 22% over the following year, although the Fed continued to cut interest rates aggressively.
Does that experience suggest that the NASDAQ index will drop sharply if the Fed raises interest rates on June 30?
By contrast, the Fed is widely expected to raise rates at the end this month, so there will be no surprise element.
But, there are reasons to believe that higher interest rates, even though expected, can have a negative impact on home prices.
When interest rates go up, these payments will (when the rate is variable) also go up, possibly becoming unsustainable.
Low interest rates did not cause the bubbles.
But declines in home prices will not occur quickly when central banks begin to raise interest rates.
In Mumbai, for example, enrollment rates surpass 95%, but only a small fraction of students graduate.
The benefits of a monetary union based on a stable macroeconomic framework and governed by an independent central bank are manifest: the euro area has enjoyed low inflation and low interest rates for much of the last decade, a boost in trade and investment, and rapid integration of financial markets.
This activism comes mainly in response to the latest alarming figures on youth unemployment in southern Europe, with sky-high rates of joblessness widely regarded as politically unacceptable.
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