It is increasingly hard not to fulminate at the latter day lunacy of blind CPI targeting. It seems hard to imagine that, 25 years ago, the brave little RBNZ was breaking new ground by adopting the goal of keeping price rises to 0-2% p.a. in order both to provide an anchor for its own broader policy aims and, believe it or not, as a way for it and the government of the day to wean the wider public sector off the levels of increasingly obstructive interventionism which had long been its practice to undertake.
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Tales of the (Water) Margin
In trying to describe the mania which is sweeping China, the mere use of superlatives falls far short of conveying a true picture of what is afoot, meaning we have to just let the numbers speak for themselves.
‘Income £20-0s-0d. Expenditure £20-0s-6d’
In our previous ‘Money, Markets & Macro’ monthly publication, we devoted some time to a consideration of the fact that the growth in US payroll costs was beginning to outstrip that of business revenues, a state of affairs which we suggested could not long be endured. Continue reading
ECB Excesses
With last week’s report of monetary developments in the Eurozone, we again have evidence both of Draghi’s monetary monomania and of the sheer futility of his constant refrain that the ECB is just buying time until member states undertake the ever-promised, but never-delivered ‘structural reforms’ which they all so patently require.