However, abandoning the contractionary monetary policy would not be wise either, Hussain said. "If the fire brigade is unable to extinguish the fire, you don't let it burn, remove the brigade and ...

Banks and financial intermediaries are also often heavily exposed to the housing sector, making it a key component of monetary policy transmission. Since the global financial crisis, economists have ...

The CRR cut by 50 bps provides adequate signalling with respect to the direction of monetary policy going forward. In the near term we could anticipate other fine tuning liquidity measures such as ...

Inflation refuses to budge. Part of the reason may be honest disclosure of what the data is saying. That of course does not help ease the pain, especially for low income families whose earnings ...

Monetary policy decisions can be either contractionary or expansionary. Contractionary monetary policy is also known as “tightening” or “restrictive” policy and is designed to slow down ...

THE Federal Reserve's policy rate continues to act as a brake on the resilient ... "In my judgment, we are still in a modestly contractionary stance, but ultimately the economy will guide us, in terms ...

nderstandably, not many people are comfortable with the monetary policy choices of ... the apex bank’s resolve to pursue a contractionary policy stance was particularly troubling for the common ...

The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) declined by 4.5 points in November, reverting back to contractionary territory at 48.1 index points. The company says this points to ...

Regardless of when the RBA decides to make cuts, the announcement will mark the first monetary policy easing since November 2020. The RBA is yet to budge on its policy, after it increased rates 13 ...

While the primary goal of a contractionary (or hawkish) monetary policy is to combat rising inflation rates, it deters unsustainable speculative spending and asset bubbles. However, these measures ...

Colombo, Nov 27 (Daily Mirror) - The Monetary Policy Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, at its meeting held on 26 November 2024, decided to further ease the monetary policy stance and set the ...

But willful foolishness usually has a cost. So it is with modern monetary theory. Ironically, this basket of economic fallacies, embraced by policymakers during the Biden-Harris administration ...