Monetary Policy

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• RBI circular on provisioning Requirement for Standard Assets (05.11.2009)

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 444
  In view of large increase in credit to the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) sector over the last one year and the extent of restructured advances in this sector, it would be prudent to build cushion against likely non-performing assets (NPAs).... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...
  5 hours ago

• Govt. will assess the need for extending further stimulus for the exporting community

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 444
  The commerce and industry ministry will review the growth of the countrys export sector by the middle of this month to assess the need for extending further stimulus for the exporting community, particularly, the labour-intensive sectors. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
  6 hours ago

• "Not All Bubbles Present a Risk to the Economy"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 695
  Frederic Mishkin says theres no reason to worry that a new bubble is inflating: Not all bubbles present a risk to the economy, by Frederic Mishkin, Commentary, Financial Times : There is increasing concern that we may be experiencing another round of asset-price bubbles that could pose great danger to the economy. ...
  7 hours ago

• What Is Inflation and How Do You Measure It?

  
  Veritas Vos Liberabit — Authority: 437
  What Is Inflation and How Does One Measure It? by Michael Shedlock To understand inflation, one must first understand what money is and how to measure it. Please read What is Money and How Does One Measure It? before attempting to understand what follows. Unfortunately there is no general agreement as to the ...
  14 hours ago

• What are these Fed presidents up to?

  
  The Economist: Daily news and views — Authority: 139
  A continuing series ONE month ago, after Federal Reserve officials issued a series of contradictory statements, I asked: "What are these Fed presidents up to?" We may have a continuing series on our hands. According to the Financial Times, St. Louis Fed president James Bullard is ...
  18 hours ago

• Sumner on monetary policy

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 679
  This week’s EconTalk is Scott Sumner on monetary policy . Sumner argues that monetary policy was too restrictive in late 2008 and turned a mild recession into a doozy. I don’t agree yet but that argument and his whole perspective is very interesting.
  21 hours ago

• Add Meir Kohn’s works to your reading list

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  I don’t remember which blog/article pointed to a paper by Meir Kohn . He is an eco professor at Dartmouth who has done tonnes of work on financial history to understand whether it helps in economic growth. What is amazing is his phd was in Operations Research. He took up economic/financial history as he was ...
  1 day ago

• Reason of Price Rise and Consequences of Price Control

  
  Reason for Liberty — Authority: 118
  Inflation engrossing Individuals The skyrocketing prices of common commodities is becoming the main political issue around which, the BJP is trying to make their case against Congress lead government. It is true that government is responsible to the price rise, but can government control the prices or the price ...
  1 day ago

• A note about the recent elections (yes, we’re nuts)

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 558
  One core reality too-often ignored in post-election analysis:  the role of the economy.  Americans tend to vote their pocketbook in elections to Congress and the Presidency.This is nuts, on many levels.Who sets economic policy?How long between policy changes and results?How do policy-makers navigate?But at least ...
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• Reserve Bank increases Statutory Reserve Deposit Requirement

  
  Invest in Fiji — Authority: 106
  The Reserve Bank of Fiji has announced that it will increase banks Statutory Reserve Deposits to 7%, from the current 5%. The increase will reduce the amount of funds that banks available for lending and other purposes. The move comes as inflation rates rose to 6.3% in September 2009 from 5.1% a month earlier. ...
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• The Crash of 2008: Its the Panic of 1825 all over again (also 1837, 1847, 1866 ... )

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 790
  Filed under: Economy A freeze in lending triggers a panic in a Western financial capital which then spreads around the globe, eventually tipping several South American countries into default. In a desperate attempt to stem the panic, the central bank steps in as "the lender of last resort" and unleashes a flood of ...
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• Gold - a six thousand year-old bubble

  
  Willem Buiter's Maverecon — Authority: 571
  Gold is unlike any other commodity.  It is costly to extract from the earth and to refine to a reasonable degree of purity.  It is costly to store.  It has no remaining uses as a producer good - equivalent or superior alternatives exist for all its industrial uses.  It may have some value as a [...]
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• On Carry and Other Tales...

  
  Models & Agents — Authority: 494
  I’m amazed with the number of academics, journalists and “pundits” in my field who keep on talking about “the carry trade” as if it’s some sort of cult… “The end of carry as we know it”… “Carry-trade silence”… “Carry makes a comeback!”… Since last week, the carry trade has also found a ...
  2 days ago

• IMF validates Roubini on Dollar used for carry trade

  
  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 573
  Bloomberg reports IMF Says Overvalued Dollar Used for ‘Carry Trades’ : The International Monetary Fund said traders are probably using the dollar to fund “carry trades” across the world and the currency may still be overvalued even after its slide this year. “There are indications that the U.S. dollar ...
  2 days ago

• The heedless Fed

  
  The Economist: Daily news and views — Authority: 139
  Pretty please, can we have some inflation? YESTERDAY, I linked to a Paul Krugman post in which he links to an old piece of analysis he wrote on the Japanese economy in 1998, in which he says:To preview the conclusions briefly: in a country with poor long-run growth prospects - for ...
  2 days ago

• Keynes on Mises — and on Himself

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 679
  Here’s a letter that I sent this morning to the Wall Street Journal : Kudos to Mark Spitznagel for drawing attention to the important but neglected work of the late Ludwig von Mises (” The Man Who Predicted the Depression ,” Nov. 7). But while Mr. Spitznagel is correct that Keynesians ignored Mises’s 1912 ...
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• Probability of deflation in US has become fairly small

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  In this new short note from FRBSF economist analyses inflation expectations in US. Predicting the course of inflation is one of the most important challenges facing monetary policymakers. Useful aids to such prediction are the measures of expected future inflation obtained from prices in government bond markets. ...
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• Importance of knowing and understanding Central Bank Laws

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  When we think about central bank functions, it is important to know that their functions are governed by an Act/Law etc. The act determines what a central bank should do, objectives etc. This is because central banks are created by governments and legislation is a way to tell the bank what to do and what not to do. ...
  3 days ago

• "A New Approach to Gauging Inflation Expectations"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 695
  Good news for those worried about inflation: A new measure of inflation expectations indicates that "longer-term inflation expectations remain near historic lows, in the neighborhood of 2 percent": A New Approach to Gauging Inflation Expectations, by Joseph G. Haubrich, Economic Commentary, FRB Cleveland : This ...
  3 days ago

• The OECD in Nominal Spending Perspective

  
  IPE at UNC — Authority: 430
  The above picture, from David Beckworth , is shocking. It shows that nominal spending (total demand in an economy) among OECD countries had a jarring drop last year, and that this is the proximate cause of the economic slowdown. (For a short post on why nominal spending matters, see this post ). Beckworth is arguing ...
  3 days ago

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