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And as for central bank independence — well, that battle was lost during the financial crisis, Iâm afraid. When it comes to globally coordinated policy actions, central banks should not be independent, and in general the more independent they are, the less effective they have been. Nominal independence is a good thing: we donât want the finance minister announcing interest rate moves, as used to happen in the UK until about 15 years ago. Central bankers are like judges: they should be technocrats, rather than politicians.
But the fact is that the last genuinely independent central banker was Alan Greenspan, who blew two enormous bubbles and was in many ways the prime cause of the global financial crisis — mostly by being far too laissez-faire, and keeping interest rates far too low for far too long. Central bank independence gave him the kind of credibility that heâd never have had if the president had been setting the exact same monetary policy, moreâs the pity.
For the time being, then, letâs not worry too much about central bank independence or about currency wars. Global interest rates are very low and are going to stay very low for the foreseeable future, and thatâs pretty much all the monetary policy that the world has. Currencies will fluctuate, of course. But donât blame central bankers for that.
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