ESCALOFRIANTES DECLARACIONES CONTRA BERNANKE. MERCADOS
Paul Volcker, presidente de la Reserva Federal entre 1979 y 1987, ha ofrecido varias perlas de gran interés recogidas por Bloomberg, expone su opinión respecto de la FED actual y la política monetaria en marcha. «It’s fashionable to talk about a dual mandate, that policy should somehow be directed toward two objectives, of price stability and full employment. Fashionable or not, I find that mandate both operationally confusing and ultimately illusory.” “The Federal Reserve, any central bank, should not be asked to do too much to undertake responsibilities that it cannot responsibly meet with its appropriately limited powers, a central bank’s basic responsibility is for a “stable currency.” «Credibility is an enormous asset. Once earned, it must not be frittered away by yielding to the notion that a little inflation right now is a good a thing, a good thing to release animal spirits and to pep up investment.” «The implicit assumption behind that siren call must be that the inflation rate can be manipulated to reach economic objectives,” “Up today, maybe a little more tomorrow and then pulled back on command. Good luck in that. All experience demonstrates that inflation, when fairly and deliberately started, is hard to control and reverse.”