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The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril

by Satyajit Das · 9 Feb 2016 · 327pp · 90,542 words

's Sir Humphrey Appleby as “the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.”21 With their limited and ineffective policy options, central bankers resorted to “forward guidance”—a tautology, as any guidance must be about future events. They would henceforth communicate commitments on future interest rates, liquidity provision, or QE over a

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to “considerable time,” driving new semantic speculation. In February 2015, Yellen abandoned “patient,” simultaneously warning that this did not mean the Fed would be impatient. Forward guidance from the other side of the Atlantic confirmed John Maynard Keynes's fear that “confusion of thought and feeling leads to confusion of speech.”23

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of Finland, Erkki Liikanen, stated: “Everything depends on the development of the economy.” On July 6, 2013, European Central Bank board member Benoît Cœuré observed: “[forward guidance is] a change in communication but not in monetary policy strategy.” On July 8, 2013, Draghi provided clarification: “We'll have to see what the

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complexity of central bank statements has paralleled the rise in the size of their balance sheets. With fiscal policy constrained and monetary policy losing potency, forward guidance drew attention to the lack of options. The increasingly shrill utterances of central bankers sounded like the Wizard of Oz claiming superior, supernatural powers. But

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner · 14 Sep 2015 · 317pp · 100,414 words

. So we must continue to decode statements like this from Janet Yellen in February 2015: “It is important to emphasize that a modification of the forward guidance should not be read as indicating that the committee will necessarily increase the target range in a couple of meetings.” See James Stewart, “Wondering What

Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State

by Paul Tucker · 21 Apr 2018 · 920pp · 233,102 words

. But some of my former colleagues were concerned about subtle backseat driving when, in 2013, the remit was amended to push the MPC toward employing “forward guidance” on the future path of interest rates (which, it should be said, the incoming governor was committed to). As provided for by the fourth Design

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instrument available to the central bank would be to talk down expectations of the future path of the policy rate (what has become known as forward guidance).7 All other interventions to stimulate aggregate demand—for example, the “quantitative easing” and “credit easing” of the postcrisis years—would fall to the “fiscal

The Curse of Cash

by Kenneth S Rogoff · 29 Aug 2016 · 361pp · 97,787 words

really turned out to be all that important, because central banks have found pretty good ways to get around it, using unconventional tools such as “forward guidance” and “quantitative easing.” The first involves telling investors that the monetary authorities intend to elevate inflation in the future, even if they cannot do it

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now. When it works, forward guidance succeeds in bringing down the real interest rate, even if the nominal interest rate is stuck at zero, since of course the real interest rate

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are looking so hard for new ideas. Yes, they can go back to some of the same tricks they tried in 2008—quantitative easing and forward guidance, as considered in some detail later in this chapter. But most central bankers are rightly skeptical that these alternative approaches are anywhere near as potent

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, short of negative rates. This section deals with the policies that the monetary authorities actually used during the financial crisis, namely, quantitative easing (QE) and forward guidance. Our purpose is to ask to what extent these various alternatives obviate the need for negative interest rate policy, or at least mitigate it to

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options, but they would prefer to find more effective, clear-cut, and transparent instruments to use in the future. FORWARD GUIDANCE In addition to quantitative easing, some mention must be made of forward guidance, a term advanced by Columbia economics professor and central banking guru Michael Woodford. The basic idea is one we have

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involve allowing future inflation to drift above target, especially if the public believes that central banks have a strong aversion to inflation. The idea of forward guidance is to find practical ways to make the promise of inflation more concrete and easier to understand, and perhaps therefore more credible. Crudely put

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, forward guidance has the central bank telling markets, “We might not be able to lower interest rates now because of the zero bound, but we promise not

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usually would.” Ideally, this reassurance is accompanied by concrete guideposts. This type of forward guidance is sometimes referred to as data-dependent forward guidance, because it basically aims to specify a reaction function to the data. There is also calendar-based forward guidance, where the central bank says, “We promise not to raise policy rates for

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zero bound before the end of this year,” as in fact they did in December 2015.35 The main practical problem with both types of forward guidance is that it is hard for the central bank to credibly make promises in a world where there is regular turnover of policy board members

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not anticipate the long sustained drop in global real interest rates that forced repeated reassessment of what normal policy rates should look like. In essence, forward guidance attempts to lever the increased credibility and status central banks have achieved in the past 20 years. It asks markets to believe that the central

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, the often huge chasm between Federal Reserve’s published predictions of its own interest rate policy and market judgments about future interest rates suggests that forward guidance has been of only limited help, certainly not enough to eschew the potential of open-ended negative rate policy, were it feasible.36 Finally, when

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comparing negative interest rate policy to much weaker tools like quantitative easing and forward guidance, it is important to recognize that any new tool will require a transition period as central banks adjust. It often takes decades of experience with

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and provide their own measures. They conclude that at the height of the financial crisis, the sum of all monetary policies (including quantitative easing and forward guidance) brought the effective policy interest rate down to –2%, even though the actual policy interest rate was between zero and 0.25%. They argue that

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. 34. Canzoneri, Henderson, and Rogoff (1983). 35. For a recent discussion of the effectiveness of data-based versus calendar-based forward guidance, see Feroli et al. (2016). 36. For further discussion of forward guidance, see Filardo and Hofmann (2014). CHAPTER 9: HIGHER INFLATION TARGETS, NOMINAL GDP, ESCAPE CLAUSES, AND FISCAL POLICY 1. A higher

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Optimize Your Digital Footprint in a World Where Your Reputation Is Your Most Valuable Asset. New York: Crown Business. Filardo, Andrew, and Boris Hofmann. 2014. “Forward Guidance at the Zero Lower Bound.” Bank for International Settlements, BIS Quarterly Review (March). Financial Action Task Force. 2015. Financing of the Terrorist Organisation Islamic State

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: of deutsche marks, 45–46; of dollars, 1985–2015, 45; of dollars, estimating, 41–45; of dollars, reasons for, 40–41; of euros, 45–47 forward guidance, 123, 145–46 France: “assignat” inflation of revolutionary, 235n30; cash, per capita holdings of, 33; coinage debasement in, 20; currency held by consumers in, 51

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, 229, 255n5 zero bound constraint, 4–5, 119–27; black hole, similarity to, 124; consumption taxes as approach to, 156–57; fiscal policy and, 249n12; forward guidance as approach to, 145–46; higher inflation targets as approach to, 147–51; historical experiences with, 128–32; macroeconomic stabilization policy and, 124–25; mitigating

The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline

by Russell Jones · 15 Jan 2023 · 463pp · 140,499 words

‘escape velocity’ from the crisis. To this end, soon after his appointment he piloted through the MPC a variation on the BOC’s strategy of forward guidance. In August 2013, with some fanfare and a considerable amount of explanatory material, he announced that so long as (i) inflation remained no more than

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% of the workforce.10 The jobless rate was 7.6% at the time, or just under a percentage point down from its post-GFC peak. Forward guidance was grounded in finance theory, and the notion that longer-term interest rates are determined by the expected path of short-rates plus a term

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to do so gradually, with the endpoint well short of the pre-crisis average.12 Overall, however, together with the belated impact of the FLS, forward guidance (or at least the notion that policy would remain accommodative until recovery was better established) seems to have played at least some role in encouraging

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open to public criticism. That said, despite a change of leadership, the Bank’s imagination continued to prove impressively fertile in this regard, even if forward guidance was only a very qualified success and seemed to suggest that where central bank communications were concerned, less could mean more. Moreover, the longer-term

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rate, a key benchmark for international loans and bond issues, in order to enhance profits. 10 Bank of England. 2013. Monetary policy trade-offs and forward guidance (August). 11 The term premium is the excess return an investor demands for holding a longer-term bond, rather than a series of shorter-term

Stocks for the Long Run 5/E: the Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies

by Jeremy Siegel · 7 Jan 2014 · 517pp · 139,477 words

to grow even if overall revenues are stagnant. Finally, investors are influenced by any earnings guidance that firms give over the next quarter or year. Forward guidance below earlier forecasts will certainly influence the stock price negatively. Years ago, management would often tip off analysts when unexpected good or bad news impacted

The Finance Book: Understand the Numbers Even if You're Not a Finance Professional

by Stuart Warner and Si Hussain · 20 Apr 2017 · 439pp · 79,447 words

of share price volatility. Using published numbers from financial statements also limits the usefulness of ratios as historic data only provides trailing indicators rather than forward guidance. Directors should consider the impact of their decisions on the ratios which are important to current and potential investors. Nice to know Price Earnings Growth

The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

by Christopher Leonard · 11 Jan 2022 · 416pp · 124,469 words

done before, to grow the monetary base larger than what it had ever been, to push the interest rate down to zero, to offer a “forward guidance” that promised interest rates would stay at zero, inducing banks and investors to take more risk. These aggressive actions were at odds with Bernanke’s

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at the memory of keeping interest rates too low during 2004, feeding the housing bubble. In 2010, the Fed kept rates at zero and gave “forward guidance” that assured bankers the rates would stay at zero for a long time, giving them more certainty to make speculative bets. The zero rate incentivized

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tools at the Fed’s disposal. The Fed had already employed two of its most powerful tools by the time Powell arrived. The first was “forward guidance,” whereby the Fed guaranteed that it would keep rates low, encouraging more lending and speculation. In January, the Fed had signaled it would keep rates

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a neutral title: “Monetary Policy Since the Onset of the Crisis.” Bernanke purported to weigh the benefits and the costs of policies like quantitative easing, forward guidance, and Operation Twist. He seemed to be very careful not to use common English or to talk about what the Fed was doing in a

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into the banking system in forty-eight hours as it had done in the span of a month during earlier rounds of QE. It gave forward guidance, promising to keep rates pinned near zero as long as necessary. And it launched all of this in one day. The FOMC voted almost unanimously

The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System

by James Rickards · 7 Apr 2014 · 466pp · 127,728 words

. ■ The Asymmetric Market In the Fed’s view, the most important part of its program to mitigate fear in markets is communications policy, also called “forward guidance,” through which the Fed seeks to amplify easing’s impact by promising it will continue for sustained periods of time, or until certain unemployment and

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inflation targets are reached. The policy debate over forward guidance as an adjunct to market manipulation is a continuation of one of the most long-standing areas of intellectual inquiry in modern economics. This inquiry

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Fed would increase the cost of waiting by offering investors zero return on cash, and it would reduce the cost of moving ahead by offering forward guidance on policy. By increasing the costs of waiting and reducing the costs of moving ahead, Bernanke would tip the scales in favor of immediate investment

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is deeply flawed because it supposes that the agency that reduces uncertainty does not also add to uncertainty by its conduct. When the Fed offers forward guidance on interest rates, how certain can investors be that it will not change its mind? When the Fed says it will raise interest rates upon

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a new uncertainty related to its ability to perform the first task. Uncertainty about future policy has been replaced with uncertainty about the reliability of forward guidance. This may be the second derivative of uncertainty, but it is uncertainty nonetheless, made worse by dependence on planners’ whims rather than the market’s

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century being perpetrated by the U.S., U.K., and Japanese central banks. PART THREE MONEY AND WEALTH CHAPTER 7 DEBT, DEFICITS, AND THE DOLLAR Forward guidance . . . should promise that monetary policy will not remove the punch bowl but allow the party to continue until very late in the evening to ensure

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quickly while the banks are stuck with the long-term assets, such as mortgages and corporate debt. The Fed’s solution to this problem is forward guidance. In effect, the Fed tells the banks not to worry about short-term rates rising until well into the future. In March 2009 the Fed

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pushed it back. The criteria on which the Fed might change its mind were unclear, and so the impact of forward guidance was muted. A debate raged within the Fed about whether forward guidance should be converted from an ever-changing series of dates to a set of hard numeric goals that were more

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Hole Symposium at the end of August 2012. While Woodford’s argument is nuanced, it boils down to one word—commitment. His point was that forward guidance is far more effective in changing behavior today if that guidance is clear and framed in such a way that the central bank will not

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repudiate the guidance in the future: A . . . reason why forward guidance may be needed . . . is in order to facilitate commitment on the part of the central bank. . . . In practice, the most logical way to make such

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thinking was immediate. On December 12, 2012, just three months after the Jackson Hole Symposium, the Fed scrapped its practice of using target dates for forward guidance and substituted strict numeric goals. In customary Fed-speak, the new goals were described as follows: In particular, the committee decided to keep the target

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achieve these goals and may even produce disastrous consequences for the United States by trying. The Fed’s own staff have expressed reservations about whether forward guidance works at all in the time horizons the Fed is using. Prominent economist Charles Goodhart has said that nominal GDP targeting is “a thinly disguised

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, “The Liquidation of Government Debt,” National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper no. 16893, March 2011, http://www.nber.org/papers/w16893. “A . . . reason why forward guidance may be needed . . .”: Michael Woodford, “Methods of Policy Accommodation at the Interest-Rate Lower Bound,” paper presented at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

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://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/20121212a.htm. The Fed’s own staff have expressed reservations . . . : Marco Del Negro, Marc Giannoni, and Christina Patterson, “The Forward Guidance Puzzle,” Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Staff Report no. 574, October 2012, http://newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr574.pdf. “a thinly disguised way

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Gap.” Wall Street Journal, December 11, 2012, p. A14, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324640104578161493858722884. Del Negro, Marco, Marc Giannoni, and Christina Patterson. “The Forward Guidance Puzzle.” Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Staff Report no. 574, October 2012, http://newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr574.pdf. Dell’Ariccia, Giovanni, Luc

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flash crash, 63, 270, 296–97 floating-exchange-rate regime, 235 Fonda, Jane, 1 food price inflation, 3 food stamps, 246 Ford, Gerald, 271–72 forward guidance, 83, 86, 185–88 forwards, gold, 275, 285–86 France, 235, 236 Franco-Prussian War, 115 Frank, Barney, 204, 205 Frankenreich, 112, 113–14 Freakonomics

The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse

by Mohamed A. El-Erian · 26 Jan 2016 · 318pp · 77,223 words

of a more challenging and disruptive policy exit in the future.” Why? Because their “analysis does suggest that the unconventional monetary policies, including QE and forward guidance, create hazards by encouraging certain types of risk-taking that are likely to reverse at some point.”5 Similar worries have also been expressed by

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the BIS Quarterly Review, Andrew Filardo and Boris Hofmann warned that “if financial markets become narrowly focused on certain aspects of a central bank’s forward guidance, a broader interpretation or recalibration of the guidance could lead to disruptive market reactions.”6 Reacting that month to a change in

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forward guidance, Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Minnesota Federal Reserve, lamented publicly that such an approach could not only damage the central bank’s credibility but also

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://www.bloom berg.com/news/2014-02-28/fed-hears-warning-that-tightening-policy-may-spark-market-tumult.html. 6. Andrew Filardo and Boris Hofmann, “Forward Guidance at the Zero Lower Bound,” BIS Quarterly Review, March 2014, Bank for International Settlements, http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1403f.htm. 7. Robin