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The crucial policy issue ahead, however, is how to time and sequence the exit strategy from this massive monetary and fiscal easing.

The Fed s monetary easing did temporarily contribute to a weaker dollar, which boosted net exports.

The market s lack of response was an important indicator that monetary easing is no longer a useful tool for increasing economic activity.

But, following monetary easing and fiscal expansion, it is Abenomics third arrow that will prove most important and most politically challenging.

The BoJ has already announced it, the Bank of England (BoE) is likely to do so soon, and the Fed will certainly announce it at its November meeting. In principle, there is little difference between monetary easing lower policy rates or more QE that leads to currency weakening and direct intervention in currency markets to achieve the same goal.

More monetary and credit easing is also required for the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, and the Swiss National Bank.

That is both logical and rational and thus not something that the US Federal Reserve can offset with unconventional monetary easing.

First, the exit strategy from monetary and fiscal easing could be botched, because policymakers are damned if they do and damned if they don t.

Monetary easing and fiscal stimulus, combined with structural measures to restore private firms to financial health, would stimulate household expenditure and business investment.

The monetary easing undertaken by the US Federal Reserve raised expectations for a devaluation of the US dollar that might help US exports.

Simply put, we live in a world in which there is too much supply and too little demand. The result is persistent disinflationary, if not deflationary, pressure, despite aggressive monetary easing.

Because the ECB has already been using its balance sheet to help bring down borrowing costs in the eurozone s periphery, it has been cautious in its approach to monetary easing.

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In both 2010 and 2011, leading economic indicators showed that the first half slowdown had bottomed out, and that growth was already accelerating before the announcement of monetary easing.

The biggest policy risk is that the exit strategy from monetary and fiscal easing is somehow botched, because policymakers are damned if they do and damned if they don t.

Hard to be Easing

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The Bank of England has moved from QE to CE (credit easing), and the Bank of Japan has repeatedly increased the size of its QE operations.

After all, while the previous rounds of US monetary easing have been associated with a persistent increase in equity prices, the size and duration of QE3 are more substantial. But, despite the Fed s impressive commitment to aggressive monetary easing, its effects on the real economy and on US equities could well be smaller and more fleeting than those of previous QE rounds.

The Lemmings of QE

Occupy QE

Quantitative Easing and the Renminbi

Even if monetary easing is phased out later rather than sooner when the economic recovery is more robust markets and investors need clarity in advance on the parameters that will determine the timing and speed of the exit.

Monetary Mystification

NEW YORK The European Central Bank has finally launched a policy of quantitative easing (QE). The key question at this stage is whether Germany will give the ECB the freedom of maneuver needed to carry out this monetary expansion with sufficient boldness.

When the first arrow of Abenomics a fiscal stimulus program was launched nearly two years ago, asset markets' immediate response was positive. The second arrow of Abenomics monetary easing intensified these effects.

The current round of monetary easing underway in many advanced countries, together with strong expectations of renminbi appreciation, are also fueling currency speculation, placing further upward pressure on the exchange rate.

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The Fed s monetary easing did temporarily contribute to a weaker dollar, which boosted net exports. But the dollar s decline has more recently been reversed by the global flight to safety by investors abandoning the euro.

Third, in response to slower growth and lower inflation (owing partly to lower commodity prices), the world s major central banks pursued another round of unconventional monetary easing lower policy rates, forward guidance, quantitative easing (QE), and credit easing.

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The Mbeki Facilitation Mission

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After the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, the rapid expansion of the money supply in the US and the UK triggered a sharp appreciation of the Japanese yen, as well as of some emerging market currencies. In short, QE is what merits concern not its termination.

In addition to the risk posed by the fiscal cliff in 2013, the main problem remains the lack of effective counter cyclical fiscal policies for example, a public investment program to boost economic activity. Instead, the US has placed all of its chips on monetary easing, unleashing what I have called a currency war, in which global investors, chasing higher yields, flood into emerging countries, driving up their exchange rates.

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