A Cautionary History of US Monetary Tightening

But monetary tightening would weaken already slow growth.

The requirements to the KP Participants non compliant with the existing statistical submissions procedures were reinforced, including the measures to suspend the participation in the KPCS.

But when and how the Fed will begin tightening monetary policy remains unclear.

In other terms, a budget is an organizational plan stated in monetary terms.

This latest round of monetary tightening in China reflects the authorities growing concern over liquidity. In 2009, M2 money supply (a key indicator used to forecast inflation) increased by 27 year on year, and credit expanded by 34 .

This is, of course, a formidable task that may have to be accomplished at a time when Congress opposes monetary tightening.

The only effective anti inflation strategy entails aggressive monetary tightening that takes policy rates into the restrictive zone.

Worried about worsening inflation and a budding real estate bubble, the People s Bank of China (PBC, the central bank) gradually tightened its monetary stance.

In order to control inflation and real estate bubbles, the central bank tightened monetary policy and the government refrained from another round of fiscal stimulus.

It was only at the end of the 1970 s that the Fed, under its new chairman, Paul Volcker, tightened monetary policy and caused inflation to fall.

Indeed, there is already reason enough for them to be nervous after all, the Fed s epic easing of financial conditions must eventually be followed by exceptionally painful tightening.

European regulators have already decided to tighten conditions for authorizing genetically modified organisms, as if to show US trade negotiators that they will not move easily from cherished positions.

Many of them thus tightened monetary policy in 2011, with consequences for growth in 2012 that have carried over into this year.

Tighter US monetary policy could intensify the global credit shortage, thereby increasing pressure on Asia s economic and financial systems.

Over the next year or so, the Fed is likely to enter a tightening cycle, raising interest rates on a steady and sustained basis.

Little wonder, then, that the latest release of the closely followed minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting points to a divided body, whose members anticipate divergent paths for monetary policy, with some expecting further accommodation and others expecting a round of tightening.

Monetary tightening was not the only major policy error of the 1930 s so was a retreat into protectionism, symbolized by the Smoot Hawley tariff increases at the beginning of that decade.

But recipient economies are vulnerable to financial market sentiment and sudden capital flight as happened recently when investors anticipated monetary policy tightening in the United States.

Yes, the Federal Reserve could tighten monetary policy. But they will not worry too much about the next financial crisis when the aftermath of the current one still lingers.

The integration test has also been tightened up.

Loosening monetary policy would increase significantly the risks stemming from local government debt and shadow banking, while tightening monetary policy would fully expose those risks, posing a serious systemic threat.

Above all, SDR s represent liquidity and can be allocated only if and when there is a global need, which would currently be difficult to prove given highly liquid and easy international capital market conditions.

The PBC continued to tighten.

To be sure, a country s domestic economic circumstances, and the tools available to policymakers, should guide policy. And, though monetary tightening may well be advisable in some economies, it might be inappropriate in others.

But a rising euro pushed higher by excessively early monetary tightening by the ECB implies more real appreciation, further undermining competitiveness.

The sale of sovereign bonds under the fixed exchange rate regime put direct upward pressure on their yields, while sales of private securities by foreigners had a similar effect, but through indirect channels. Monetary tightening was forestalled only to the extent that another source of foreign capital (either private or ECB) could replace the outflow.

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Denmark continues to believe that pressure on the parties should be stepped up.

To rein in rising house prices and pre empt the inflationary impact of the strongly expansionary fiscal and monetary policies implemented during the global financial crisis, China s monetary authorities began to tighten financial conditions in January 2010.

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Allocating new SDR s also is inappropriate. Above all, SDR s represent liquidity and can be allocated only if and when there is a global need, which would currently be difficult to prove given highly liquid and easy international capital market conditions.

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Let us reserve our right to add any conditions or preconditions, because that might just complicate the whole issue.

The Bundesbank is also tightening credit at home.

We first welcome the emphasis the Secretary General has placed on development in his report.

Will Germany agree to such a relaxation or, for that matter, to Hollande s implicit demand that the ECB follow Japan s example and loosen monetary policy to drive the exchange rate back down?

These conditions need to change.

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