{"id":17984,"date":"2016-02-18T14:51:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17984"},"modified":"2016-02-18T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:51:56","slug":"nirp-wont-work-what-ray-dalio-thinks-central-banks-will-do-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17984","title":{"rendered":"NIRP Won’t Work – What Ray Dalio Thinks Central Banks Will Do Next"},"content":{"rendered":"

NIRP Won’t Work – What Ray Dalio Thinks Central Banks Will Do Next<\/a><\/h3>\n
Just as we first warned in September 2013,\u00a0<\/a>so it seems the view of “helicopter money” being imminent is now becoming more mainstream as the powers that be slowly propagandize the benefits.<\/div>\n
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If dropping interest rates to zero was Unorthodox Policy #1 and QE was Unorthodox Policy #2 then it seems very possible Helicopter Money will be Unorthodox Policy #3.\u00a0<\/strong>Whether this new level of expansionism, with all the hopes and theoretic power it is supposed to hold, can generate growth of the red-hot rather than lukewarm kind remains to be seen.<\/div>\n

However in so much as it could potentially raise nominal GDP, it may become an increasingly more attractive policy option around a global economy (especially DM) economy that faces many natural and structural growth concerns in the year ahead.Forcing the nominal economy to grow into the problems of the bubble era could be the most realistic policy choice over the remainder of the decade.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And today, the latest in a long line of realists has now come to the same conclusion that the only thing the central planners have left is a money-drop…<\/p>\n

Authored by Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio (via ValueWalk.com),<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Monetary Policy 1 was via interest rates. Monetary Policy 2 was via quantitative easing. It will be important for policy makers and us as investors to envision what Monetary Policy 3 (MP3) will look like.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While monetary policy in the US\/dollar has not fully run its course and lowering interest rates and quantitative easing can still rally markets and boost the economy a bit, the Fed\u2019s ability to stimulate via these tools is weaker than it has ever been. The BoJ\u2019s and ECB\u2019s abilities are even weaker. As a result, central banks will increasingly be \u201cpushing on a string.\u201d Let\u2019s take just a moment to review the mechanics of why and then go on to see what MP3 will look like.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NIRP Won’t Work – What Ray Dalio Thinks Central Banks Will Do Next Just as we first warned in September 2013,\u00a0so it seems the view of “helicopter money” being imminent is now becoming more mainstream as the powers that be slowly propagandize the benefits. If dropping interest rates to zero was Unorthodox Policy #1 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6036,1719,10905,124,366,452,534,7523,662,7888,12485,4318],"class_list":["post-17984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-b","tag-bond","tag-bridgewater","tag-central-banks","tag-global-economy","tag-japan","tag-monetary-policy","tag-nominal-gdp","tag-quantitative-easing","tag-ray-dalio","tag-reality-volatility","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17986,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17984\/revisions\/17986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}