William Watson: At least Pierre Poilievre thinks about monetary policy — via fpcomment
OK. Good. Except for one thing. That’s two jobs, not one. Controlling consumer prices but also controlling asset prices. If the two always move together, no problem: you control one, you likely control the other. But they don’t always move together. That’s why Mr. Poilievre mentions asset prices. Sometimes they bubble up even as the Consumer Price Index is simmering gently.Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the Financial Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
But that’s about it for monetary policy tools. The Bank has some regulatory power over financial institutions. It can also engage in “moral suasion,” i.e., talk about what it thinks financial institutions should do. And it can buy and sell assets to try to move interest rates at longer-than-overnight terms — though many people, including Mr. Poilievre, don’t like large-scale asset purchasing because of its inflationary effect on the money supply .
If you’ve got essentially one policy instrument — short-term interest rates — how do you hit two policy targets? With one stone, how do you kill two birds . The U.S. Fed did a reasonable job keeping consumer prices under control in the first decade of this century. But house prices went through the roof and their ultimate collapse led to the biggest financial crash since 1929. Former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke himself might agree in retrospect that interest rates should have been higher through the oughts so as to prick the housing balloon when it was just birthday-party size, before it turned into a Zeppelin.
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