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Opinion | Beware of the ‘whatever it takes’ response to a crisis

There is good reason for RBI not to make any assurance that would amount to an unlimited bailout offer

4 min read7 Oct 2019
Opinion

Opinion | Financial markets reduce monetary policy to a farce

They are neither informationally efficient nor are they useful price discovery mechanisms

4 min read8 Jan 2019
Opinion

Why central bankers can’t follow the markets

Doing so can bring both short-termism and populism into central bank policies; neither of these is desirable

4 min read13 Feb 2018
Market

Global central bankers, stuck at zero, unite in plea for help from governments

Officials from the Federal Reserve, BoJ and ECB said their efforts to bolster the economy through monetary policy may falter unless leaders stepped forward with bold measures

3 min read28 Aug 2016
News

Raghuram Rajan stresses need for new permanent liquidity facility

Central bankers agreed that conventional monetary policy alone is no longer enough to manage growth

3 min read2 Aug 2016
Politics

RBI calls for joint action to calm markets

Khan's comments follow calls from analysts for a new currency pact to soothe financial markets amid diverging policies by central banks in US, Europe and Japan

1 min read6 Feb 2016
News

Almost out of ammo, central bankers urged to stay in fight

Monetary policy makers are being pushed to gear up yet again to counter the disinflationary fallout from slumping commodities and China's slowdown

3 min read22 Jan 2016
News

Central banks keep easing after cuts fail to spur growth

Global central bankers are poised to ease monetary policy even further after a wave of interest-rate cuts from India to Poland

6 min read10 May 2013
Opinion

The atavism of central banks

Central bankers need to be cautious and not get carried away with their new-found targets

2 min read24 Dec 2012
Opinion

Ourview | The burden of central bankers

Ourview | The burden of central bankers

1 min read5 Sep 2012
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