Korekiyo Takahashi and Helicopter Money
Bank of Japan: a distant whirring sound
Helicopter money is more effective, so it’s bad news for bond holders
As well as disrupting the market, bidding ever higher prices for bonds renders more costly the ultimate, paradoxical denouement of the policy, when inflation finally arrives, causing yields to rise and bond prices to crash.
Really credible stimulus should avoid this.
FT 18 July 2016
Helicopter money is more effective, so it’s bad news for bond holders
As well as disrupting the market, bidding ever higher prices for bonds renders more costly the ultimate, paradoxical denouement of the policy, when inflation finally arrives, causing yields to rise and bond prices to crash.
Really credible stimulus should avoid this.
FT 18 July 2016
As the policy debate intensifies, investors might spare a thought for Korekiyo Takahashi,
Bank of Japan governor from 1911 to 1913.
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