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Thursday, November 4, 2021

Central Bank Transparency — Brian Romanchuk

The Bank of England whipsawed markets today by leaving its policy stance unchanged, despite hints of a tightening that were given out last month. This variability is not particularly surprising to me, so I just want to comment on some of the deeper issues. I believe that I have discussed these topics in the past on my blog, but since I have many new readers, I will run through my thinking again.

My view is that the shift towards greater “transparency” by central banks since the 1990s has been a mistake. As is entirely typical, the root of the mistake was listening to New Keynesians....
Bond Economics
Central Bank Transparency
Brian Romanchuk
http://www.bondeconomics.com/2021/11/central-bank-transparency.html

1 comment:

  1. La garde just said the day before ECB won’t even consider it until 2023

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-03/lagarde-renews-pushback-against-market-bets-on-ecb-rate-hike


    So you think BOE is then going to raise?

    They are in a competitive situation there…

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