The Fed does not want to revisit another period, of more recent vintage, in which it was forced to engage in unconventional monetary policies.
, the Fed was forced to take interest rates to zero — ZIRP — launch so-called quantitative easing policies and use never-before-tried extraordinary measures to ward off complete and systemic collapses of both the global financial system and the global economy.
we've witnessed in a post-pandemic world is reason enough to raise interest rates to more normal historical levels, the desire to never go back again to a zero-interest rate environment may also be key to why so many Fed officials insist that they want to keep rates "higher for longer" than financial markets, and even consumers, may desire. The Fed, in the wake of the deflation that gripped the economy in 2008-09, desperately tried to pump up the volume on economic growth to bring inflation back above 2% to avoid having the next crisis create a 1930s-style bust. Over the ensuing 12 years, inflation never got above the 2% floor. Once the pandemic hit in March of 2020, the economy collapsed, the domestic unemployment rate shot up to 14%, 22 million Americans lost jobs and a deflationary death spiral seemed to be upon the global economy. Central bank policies around the world were so aggressive in this regard that some $18.4 trillion worth of sovereign bonds carried negative interest rates in December of 2020 — something that never happened in the history of money and credit! That amount has now dwindled to zero in the face of worldwide rate hikes since the beginning of last year.With respect to the most recent crisis, ZIRP and massive fiscal stimulus turned the tide, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and for the first time in over a decade pushed inflation to the highest levels in 40 years. As Sir Isaac Newton postulated in his "third law," for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.than many, myself included, would have expected given the normalization of supply chains, a glut of consumer goods and the obvious impact of the rapidly rising cost of funds on the most interest-sensitive sectors of the economy which are now in recession. While the Fed's latest conundrum is slowing the economy, bringing down inflation and attempting to avoid a Volcker-like recession, the Fed may also quietly be pleased that even if a recession comes around, it will not have to go back to zero to protect the economy from completely falling off a cliff. It appears that the whole point of Fed, and other central bank, policies is that whether we're refusing to return to the 1970s or refusing to return to an era of zero interest rates.Been down one time/Been down two time/Mmmm I'm never going back again."
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