Which central bank staffperson said:
1.15 As Monetary Authorities, we have been humbled and have taken heart in the realization that some leading Central Banks, including those in the USA and the UK, are now not just talking of, but also actually implementing flexible and pragmatic central bank support programmes where these are deemed necessary in their National interests.
1.16 That is precisely the path that we began over 4 years ago in pursuit of our own national interest and we have not wavered on that critical path despite the untold misunderstanding, ...
1.17 Yet there are telling examples of the path we have taken from key economies around the world. For instance, when the USA economy was recently confronted by the devastating effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as the Iraq war, their Central Bank stepped in and injected life-boat schemes in the form of billions of dollars that were printed and pumped into the American economy.
1.18 A few months ago, the USA economy confronted a severe mortgage crisis, which threatened to spark an economy-wide recession.
1.19 The USA Central Bank again responded by injecting over US $160 billion between December, 2007 and March, 2008, to provide impetus to the American economy and prevent a worse crisis from happening....
... we had our near-bank failures a few years ago and we responded by providing the affected Banks with (funds)... for which we were heavily criticized even by some multi-lateral institutions who today are silent when the Central Banks of UK and USA are going the same way and doing the same thing under very similar circumstances...
1.26 As Monetary Authorities, we commend those of our peers, the world over, who have now seen the light on the need for the adoption of flexible and practical interventions and support to key sectors of the economy when faced with unusual circumstances.
When I first read it, I scratched my head and thought : this writing is too clear for it to be an RBI speech. Here's the answer.
This evening I would like to talk about central bank communication. There are plenty of people who probably think that ‘central bank’ and ‘communication’ are not expressions that are normally thought of as belonging together. Yet communication has become steadily more open, and more important, in the central banking world over the years. At one time, overnight interest rates used to be adjusted without announcement or explanation snugging was a popular term of the late . The market would generally take a few days, and the general public considerably longer, to work out what was happening when monetary policy was changing. They usually had to wait longer again for an explanation of why it was changing.
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