Ωστόσο, όπως αναφέρει το Dow Jones Newswires, ο Bernanke σημείωσε πως η Fed πρέπει να είναι έτοιμη να προχωρήσει σε σύσφιξη της νομισματικής πολιτικής εάν χρειαστεί για να εμποδίσει την ενίσχυση του πληθωρισμού.
«Η οικονομία συνεχίζει να απαιτεί τη στήριξη της νομισματικής πολιτικής,» ανέφερε χαρακτηριστικά ο πρόεδρος της Fed.
Η μείωση των επιτοκίων οδήγησε τις τράπεζες στο να συσσωρεύσουν πάνω από 1 τρισ. δολ. σε πλεονάζοντα διαθέσιμα στη Fed, γεγονός που σύμφωνα με ορισμένους οικονομολόγους μπορεί να οδηγήσει σε υψηλό πληθωρισμό.
Σύμφωνα με τον Bernanke με την αύξηση των επιτοκίων στα πλεονάζοντα διαθέσιμα, η Fed θα μπορέσει να δημιουργήσει ανοδικές πιέσεις σε όλα βραχυπρόθεσμα επιτόκια. Με την αύξηση του επιτοκίου στα πλεονάζοντα διαθέσιμα, κίνηση που επιτρέπεται από τον Οκτώβριο του 2008, οι τράπεζες θα έχουν μεγαλύτερο κίνητρο να κρατούν τα χρήματα στη Fed παρά να χορηγούν δάνεια σε επιχειρήσεις και νοικοκυριά.
http://www.capital.gr/News.asp?id=933257
Bernanke Signals Asset Sales May Have Bigger Role in Exit Plan
“I anticipate that at some point we will in fact have a gradual sales process,” Bernanke said today in testimony to the House Financial Services Committee. In prepared remarks, he avoided repeating a February statement that the Fed won’t sell any securities “at least until after policy tightening has gotten under way.” Instead, he said today the tool is one way of “applying monetary restraint.”By selling the assets, the Fed would reach its objective of holding only Treasury securities and return its $2.31 trillion balance sheet to levels prior to the financial crisis, Bernanke said. The Fed plans this month to complete buying $1.25 trillion of the housing debt, a program begun in January 2009 to lower home-loan rates and revive the economy.
“Unless you are selling assets, you are not meaningfully and convincingly reducing the size of the balance sheet,” said Dan Greenhaus, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak & Co. LLC in New York.
“The FOMC is not comfortable with holding all of these securities until they mature, as some would be 30 years, and we want to move more quickly than that back to the pre-crisis balance sheet,” Bernanke said. The Fed wouldn’t sell assets in a “really weak economy,” he said.
“The economy continues to require the support of accommodative monetary policies,” Bernanke said in prepared testimony, repeating parts of a statement to the panel from last month.
Responding to questions, Bernanke said the “unemployment situation is very weak,” and the housing market is “still quite weak.”
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-25/bernanke-signals-asset-sales-may-have-bigger-role-in-exit-plan.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i2fYumPo6k-G-13TQ92fOc67YiVgD9ELOU385
Meanwhile, some economists are warning that ending the mortgage purchase programme, as well as any subsequent mortgage asset sales, could raise mortgage rates and hamper the economic recovery.
Mr Bernanke appeared to strike a middle ground in the debate. “I anticipate that at some point we will in fact have a gradual sales process so that we can begin to move our balance sheet back to its pre-crisis condition.”
Meanwhile, Mr Bernanke confirmed that all of the Fed’s special liquidity facilities put in place during the crisis would close by June 30.
The portion of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility that supports the market for car, credit card, and student loans ends next week, while the Talf programme related to commercial property loans will remain in place for an additional three months.
Mr Bernanke noted that these moves, as well as last month’s increase in the discount rate, at which commercial banks can borrow from the Fed in an emergency, were a normalisation of liquidity tools and not the beginning of a shift in monetary policy.
This is expected through an increase in the interest rate on reserves, preceded by a ramp-up of tools designed to drain liquidity from the financial system that the Fed has been studying in recent months, such as “reverse repurchase agreements” and “term deposits”.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/792fa910-3820-11df-9e8e-00144feabdc0.html
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Από ότι θα καταλάβατε, η "στρατηγική εξόδου" της FED πήρε μια πρώτη παράταση μέχρι τις 30/6/2010.
Η σημερινή ομιλία του Μπεν αρχικά επρόκειτο να συμβεί εντός του Φεβ.2010 όταν αναβλήθηκε λόγω της κακοκαιρίας - χιόνιζε, όπως και στην Ευρώπη.
Τέλος, δεν μου φαίνεται καθόλου παράξενο που ο Μπεν δείχνει να συμπλέει με τον Τρισιέ - αλλά αυτό είναι το επόμενο ποστ.
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