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How the Bank of Canada’s monetary policies affect the economy

Monday, August 8th, 2011


The effects of easy money

Easy-money policies are used to stimulate bank lending and spending by consumers and businesses at times when the economy is in a recession and unemployment is unusually high. If the easy-money policies cause aggregate demand to increase, real output will rise more rapidly and unemployment will decline.

These beneficial effects of easy money are, however, not automatic. If the economy is in quite severe recession and expectations regarding the future are gloomy, consumers and businesses may be reluctant to borrow and spend money. Also, the banks may choose to hold some excess reserves rather than make loans that might prove risky due to poor economic conditions. Thus, easy money merely increases the banks’ reserves and makes more loans possible; it does not automatically create money and boost aggregate demand. This problem has been likened to “pushing on a rope,” which suggests that easy money by itself may not always be sufficient to lift the economy out of a recession. For this reason, many people believe that easy money should be combined with federal budget deficit, which can provide a more direct boost to aggregate demand and can thereby start the economy on its way toward recovery.

When easy money does generate higher aggregate demand, the results are not totally beneficial: a side effect of the increased total spending may be more rapid inflation. While the reduced unemployment from the easy money policies may make some additional inflation acceptable, this side effect does place a limit on the use of easy money.

 

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The Bank of Canada

Monday, September 6th, 2010


The Bank of Canada has increased the target for its trend-setting overnight lending rate on July 20, raising it by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75 percent. The increase follows on the heels of an equal interest rate increase in June 2010, when it was raised for the first time since 2007. The Bank rate now stands at one percent.

In its most recent interest rate announcement, the Bank marked down its outlook for economic growth globally, emphasizing the uneven economic recovery in the U.S. and weakening prospects for European economic growth.

In the Bank’s view, Canada’s domestic economy is largely evolving as expected in recent months, but it trimmed its forecast for economic growth this year and next by 0.2 percent to 3.5 percent in 2010 and 2.9 percent in 2011. While the Bank raised its forecast for Canadian economic to 2.2 percent in 2012, it nonetheless left the easing trend for growth intact.

The Bank indicates, “[this] revision reflects a slightly weaker profile for global economic growth and more modest consumption growth in Canada. The Bank anticipates that business investment and net exports will make a relatively larger contribution to growth.

“Where the domestic recovery had previously been led by housing and consumer spending it is now guided more by government stimulus.”

The Bank also reaffirmed its view that housing activity and household expenditures were pulled forward into the first half of 2010, which is expected to cause them to soften in the second half. It also recognized that business investment has been weaker than it previously expected, “held back by global uncertainties.” The Bank anticipates that “business investment and net exports will make a relatively larger contribution to growth” over its forecast horizon.

As of July 20, the advertised five-year conventional mortgage rate of 5.79 percent was down 0.06 percent from one year earlier, and 0.2 percent below where it stood when the Bank made its previous interest rate announcement on June 1. However, it is 0.3 percentage points higher than it was at the beginning of the year.

The Bank has signaled to financial markets that it is leaving its options open as to whether it will raise interest rates further when it makes its next rate announcement on September 8.

“As it did with its previous announcement in June, the Bank messaged financial markets that further interest rate increases are not pre-ordained,” says Gregory Klump, chief economist at the Canadian Real Estate Association. “The strength of recent economic indicators has prompted the Bank to raise interest rates, but the Bank has signaled that it may keep rates on hold should the economic recovery begin to show signs of losing steam.”

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