Will politics force central banks to extend monetary stimulus?
*Financial Times, by Mohamed El-Erian, February 21, 2013:
''The only way the Fed will abandon QE any time soon is if America's
growth rate and job creation reach 'escape velocity.' For this to
happen, Congress would need to encourage tailwinds rather than
headwinds. Absent that, it will take some time for the economy's
ongoing endogenous healing to attain critical mass.
Since Congress doesn't look to be getting its act together any time
soon, the Fed will face an uncomfortable choice at every policy meeting
in the next few months: either continue to use imperfect policy tools
and risk greater collateral damage on a widening front; or stop and
undermine the economy's momentum.
Today's world of dysfunctional politics is one that pushes central
banks further away from their comfort zone and excludes the best
possible responses. The resulting inconsistencies can only be
resolved through a more comprehensive policy approach that deals
directly with the west's challenges of too little growth, too much debt
and too polarised a political discourse. In the meantime, central
banks will have no choice but to opt for what they perceive as the
lesser of two evils -- that of maintaining a visibly imperfect policy
stance.''
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