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Thursday, September 13, 2012

A Step in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Right Direction

The FOMC adopted open-ended QE today:
To support a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 rate most consistent with its dual mandate, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Committee agreed today to increase policy accommodation by purchasing additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $40 billion per month.... If cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 outlook for cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 labor market does not improve substantially, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability.
This is long-overdue and much needed. The efficacy, however, of this open-ended QE would be far more effective in shaping expectations had it been tied to an explicit target.  Doing so would also make cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Fed more accountable for its actions.   Still, conditioning QE explicitly on cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 state of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 economy is a vast improvement over past QEs. It also opens cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 door for eventually tying monetary policy to a NGDP level target.  One step closer to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 goal Market Monetarists have been calling for since 2009. 

P.S. Michael Woodford and Scott Sumner reach a similar conclusion about cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 FOMC's decisions today.  See Joe Weisenthal for a good summary of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 days events, including coverage of Chairman Bernanke's press conference and a cameo appearance by me. (Update: See Lars Christensen too.)

P.P.S.  Still don't undertand cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 point of managing expectations via a NGDP level target? Then check out Mike Konczal's entertaining Gifs tutorial.

P.P.P.S.  Never underestimate cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 power of blogging! (Even if tenure requires traditional academic publishing.)

7 comments:

  1. My prediction: this will do nothing and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 fiscal cliff will send us into recession in Q1, which will show that monetary policy is ineffectual in a balance sheet recession.

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  2. OhMy,

    If cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 FOMC does not get more explicit about its open-ended QE, you may be right. I hope, though, that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 fiscal cliff gets worked out before we have to test cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Fed's resolve.

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  3. Given that Bernanke said today that he did not believe cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Fed's tools were powerful enough to offset a fiscal shock, getting more explicit about it probably will not happen IMHO.

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  4. There is no fiscal cliff. A fantasy made by agenda driven people.

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  5. David
    I wasn´t too excited about it!
    http://cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365faintofheart.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/euphoria%C2%B4s-in-cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365-air/

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  6. Yes, I think an excellent step in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 right direction.

    The blogosphere wins this one? Maybe. Stay tuned.

    I would prefer explicit and transparent targeting of NGDP and no IOR and many ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r things but open-ended QE is pretty good. I wish it was $100 billion a month of US Treasuries, but anyway.....

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  7. Marcus, at least it is progress. But you are right to worry.

    Benjamin, glad to have had you along for cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 ride.

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