What does attitude have to do with anything? For a modern Economist or central banker (same thing), it’s everything. Expectations-based monetary policy calls for, and depends upon, manipulating emotions. But just whose emotions are the intended target?
You and me, to begin with, but then our employers and the corporate managers who run the firms particularly their hiring and investing staffs. Traders at the NYSE. The Federal Reserve, as the ECB or Bank of Japan, wants to get the whole lot to believe in what it is doing. If all of us in it think the agency is printing money, then we are expected to act in accordance.
Inflation is actually projected to result from this, rather than derives from any effective money being printed.
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