And that leverage much of it the result of monetary expansion in most of the world s advanced economies is not even serving the goal of boosting long term aggregate demand. After all, accommodative monetary policies can, at best, merely buy time for more durable sources of demand to emerge.

This prideful interpretation amounted to the siren song of an extremely accommodative monetary policy. Unable to disentangle the global and domestic pressures suppressing inflation, a price targeting Fed has erred consistently on the side of easy money.

Besides structural reforms, building new momentum will require pulling all possible levers that can support global demand. Accommodative monetary policy will remain essential for as long as growth remains anemic though we must pay careful attention to potential spillovers.

The disinflation and ample liquidity created by the accommodative monetary policy of central governments have driven the market interest rates down to the extent that the fixed income markets no longer offer the returns that investors have enjoyed in the past.

The ramifications for interest rate spreads, emerging market equities, and housing demand, among much else, are the subject of widespread debate. But, as markets learn to cope with a less accommodative monetary policy, there could be an important silver lining, which most people have ignored.

First, it is important to acknowledge that weak aggregate demand and anemic economic growth, not an acceleration in the labor displacement rate, explains the slow jobs growth of the last decade. Under these conditions, monetary policy should remain accommodative and further fiscal austerity should be eschewed.

It would be a different matter if we were to decide to buy bonds issued by euro area sovereigns the only market where size would generally not be an issue. Interventions in this market would likely entail a stronger signal that the ECB is committed to maintaining an accommodative monetary policy for an extended period of time.

The abundance of liquidity sloshing around the world the result of developed countries ultra accommodative monetary policies has made the task more difficult still, as the smallest sign of growth in an emerging economy can attract foreign capital. If not properly managed, these flows can precipitate a credit and asset price boom and drive up exchange rates.

The risk of a global crash has been low, because deleveraging has proceeded apace in most advanced economies the effects of fiscal drag are smaller monetary policies remain accommodative and asset reflation has had positive wealth effects. Moreover, many emerging market countries are still growing robustly, maintain sound macroeconomic policies, and are starting to implement growth enhancing structural reforms.

For the US, the combination of a stronger economy and less accommodative monetary policy will put additional upward pressure on the dollar s exchange rate which has already appreciated significantly against both the euro and the yen. With few other countries willing to allow their currencies to strengthen, the dollar s tendency toward appreciation will remain strong and broad based, potentially triggering domestic political opposition.

And we know how to do that accommodative monetary policy fiscal adjustment in all advanced economies that includes concrete and realistic plans to reduce debt over the medium term, but does not undercut short term growth completing the banking sector cleanup and reforms to boost productivity and growth potential. All of this should be complemented by a rebalancing of global demand toward dynamic markets, including emerging economies.

Monetary Mystification

This argument has proved convincing in policy and political circles, leading officials to focus on a new approach centered on so called macro prudential tools, including capital requirements and leverage ratios, to curb excessive risk taking by banks. While this approach has some merit, it is incomplete, as it fails to address the egregious mispricing of risk brought about by an overly accommodative monetary policy and the historically low interest rates that it generated.

Despite legitimate questions about the effectiveness of its unconventional and ever experimental policy stance, the Fed appears willing to be even more activist if the economy weakens. Indeed, if the Fed makes an inadvertent mistake (the likelihood of this is considerable, given the country s complex situation and the unusually uncertain outlook), it is more likely to err on the side of staying accommodative for too long, rather than tightening monetary policy prematurely.

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Policy would still be accommodative if the Fed maintained low interest rates rather than the zero level that was appropriate for a panic. And this would give savers less of an incentive to search for yield, thus avoiding financial instability.

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Yet widespread concerns persist. The International Monetary Fund for example, has argued that any rate hike by the Fed would need an effective monetary policy communication strategy a polite way of saying that any monetary tightening in the US and other advanced economies would be premature.