Thursday, August 21, 2014

Krugman says ''don't snatch away the bowl..."


Article;
Why some Fed officials want the bank to retreat stimulus campaign more quickly?

Comment;
The Pigou-Effect works in liquidity-trap… Now that We have reduced unemployment-rate close to its natural-rate, but economists say that the US economy is still stuck in liquidity-trap… To overcome liquidity trap Keynesians recommend the use of Fiscal-Policy, but, again, the Public-Debt of the country does not allow it to loose string… So the economy has totally failed to cross the trap… sorry… but, by not using any of the above methods… so it is neither Classical nor Keynesian… However, we can not reject the thesis that politicians are not necessarily economists. Pigou says, in liquidity-trap, when people accumulate reserves in expectation of lower prices ahead and are unable to arrive at the right conclusion, because they always expect that prices will fall more, greed…, it is good from the point of view of growth to let the prices fall and help clear-market and generate more demand… In this state of affairs if interest-rate is at minimum as it is now, it will definitely help the economy to pick steam… economic-activity always awaits low interest rates… Inventories will be sold-off and low interest-rate will help improve supply for future. Economy will gain momentum… Once Bernake himself said, not long back, that “little deflation is not bad”… Pigou says lower prices will increase real-wages, what Yellen wants, higher wages! Higher real wages and income should definitely reduce voluntary-unemployment, “stopped looking for jobs”. Still early to increase rates…

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