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Quantitative Easing: A Boon or Curse?
Published on July 24, 2021
Stephen Flood
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Central banks’ massive Quantitative Easing (QE) programs have come under scrutiny many times since the central banks fired up the printing press and began quantitative easing programs en masse after the 2008-09 Great Financial Crisis.
However, the increase in central bank assets due to quantitative easing programs during the crisis pale in comparison to the QE programs during the Covid pandemic.
As economies recovered after the Great Financial Crisis many worried that consumer price inflation would rise rapidly due to the extra liquidity in the market. A fear that never materialized as many economies stayed well below central bank inflation targets.
Quantitative Easing Leading to Financial Crisis?
The question being asked now is have these programs led to financial mania?
This is how Peter Fisher, former executive vice president and manager of the System Open Market Account of the New York Federal Reserve, describes the effect of the action of the Fed in the PBS Frontline (U.S. based) program released on July 13. Mr. Fisher goes on to say that when he
The Frontline program does also have interviews with supporters of QE; “we’re lucky that the government was successful, or we could be living through a true depression”, stated Lev Menand, a former economic advisor to the Fed and the Treasury Department.
But the overall message of the program is that, “while well-intentioned, the Fed’s experiment has delivered mixed results over the years, some experts say in the documentary, with the biggest benefits going to Wall Street rather than Main Street, wealth inequity widening and the risk of inflation growing — over the past year, in particular. In addition, the Fed has insisted signs of inflation are temporary. However, has signaled it may taper quantitative easing and raise interest rates as early as 2023.”
Moreover, even investors that have greatly benefited from the Fed’s program. Such as Jeremy Grantham, spoke out against the unintended consequences of the massive QE programs;
Quantitative Easing Causing More Harm Than Cure?
Mr. Fisher describes QE as “pretty basic in medicine that our doctor may give us a drug, which, in a small punchy dose, for a brief period of time, might help us recover from whatever ails us … But that the same medicine, the same drug, taken in massive doses over long periods of time, might kill us or make us ill or have perverse side effects.”
…. Or the medicine intended to cure, or lessen the pain, could become an addiction. This is exactly what a report published on July 16th from the House of Lords, Economic Affairs Committee titled: Quantitative Easing: a Dangerous Addiction?
According to a Bloomberg article, penned by Mervyn King, a member of the committee which issued the report, the answer to this pointed question as the title is “Yes”. Mr. King goes on to say that the report has four important points.
The first point of the report is for central banks to not get locked in the mindset that all the rise in inflation is transitory. Although he agrees that some components will be due to base effects he warns central banks that “the lack of concern that has characterized central-bank statements — at least until the last few days — fuels the perception that policy makers are stuck with their “lower for longer” mindset. This matters, because if policy falls behind the curve, the cost of tackling a rise in inflation will be higher than it would be under a forward-looking, preemptive approach.”
The second point of the report is that: “QE is not a cure-all. QE has become a universal remedy for almost any macroeconomic setback. But only certain shocks merit a monetary-policy response. Moreover, the explanations provided by central banks to justify the scale of QE in 2020 changed over the course of the year. It failed to distinguish between shocks that justified a monetary response and those that didn’t.”
The third point of the report is that: “QE poses risks for central-bank independence. QE has made it easier for governments to finance exceptionally large budget deficits in the extraordinary circumstances of Covid-19. But when the central banks reduce this support, will they come under pressure to help finance ongoing budget deficits or to keep short-term interest rates close to zero? It’s possible they will.”
And the fourth point of the report is that: Central banks need to have an exit plan. QE tends to be deployed in response to bad news, but isn’t reversed when the bad news ends. Mr. King goes on to say that
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