"I think that at the core of the problem is that people have a very hard
time figuring out what monetary policy is. Most people – including I
believe most central bankers – think that credit policy is monetary
policy. Just take the Federal Reserve’s attempt to distort relative
prices in the financial markets in connection with QE2 or the ECB’s OMT
program where the purpose is to support the price of government bonds
in certain South European countries without increasing the euro
zone money base. Hence, the primary purpose of these policies is not to
increase nominal GDP or stabilise NGDP growth, but rather to change
market prices. That is not monetary policy. That is credit policy and worse – it is in fact bailouts."
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