Debt and monetary normalisation, a complicated cocktail
After nearly a decade of easy money, the financial markets and the economy have not just become addicted to debt, but also indifferent to the continued growth in global debt.
Bank of Japan
Negative Rates – Naughty Or Nice?
UBS | The Bank of Japan has now fearlessly (sort of fearlessly) embraced negative interest rates. The negative rates will not be comprehensively applied in Japan, but yet another central bank has broken through zero. Rates are, or have been, negative in Japan, the Euro area, Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark. From an economic point of view what does this mean? There are good and bad aspects to negative interest rates.
The Japan Story: A Lesson For Central Bankers Everywhere
It is a simple story of failure, but one that fits the facts. It´s also based on a simple premise: An inflation obsession that took hold in 1974.
BoJ monetary policy unchanged but capital impairment risk cannot be ignored
LONDON | Barclays | The Bank of Japan (BoJ) stayed away from enhancing monetary stimulus as it expects the economy to move up from the recent soft patch and inflation to pick up.