Fed plays in soap bubbles

Fed plays in the soap bubbles

Yesterday’s speech of US Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen, as well as a press conference the president of the ECB, did not bring any surprises. Yellen said that while the American regulator, there are other possibilities for maneuver, the need to raise rates available. The Central Bank decides to create a stable financial system that will be able to adjust the “bubble” in the market. The possibility of artificially pierce the bubbles raising rates needle in this case it is better not to use.

Therefore
way, monetary policy within
US remains the same: the price of the shares and
bonds remain at the same level,
and if investors want to inflate
“Bubbles” and then – let them inflate
their health until they burst themselves.
Yellen said that the main purpose of the Fed
now – to support the labor market and
Inflation in the pre-planned
level. Of course, there are problems:
increasing risks in the financial system
– the main ones. However, to minimize the
These risks should be other measures, not
touching monetary policy.

Instead
Fed raising rates decided
strengthen bank regulation. rather
all, it will negatively affect their
profit. In this case, Yellen said that
strengthening the stability of the financial
system due to the growth of unemployment and
lower inflation (as it happened
be at higher rates) – unambiguously
is not an option that would be today
adopted.

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