Wednesday, November 30, 2011

RBI often takes recourse to open mouth operations

.... Central bankers across the globe are renowned for their gobbledegook. So is the RBI. But what made Gokarn tell the world in clear terms that India is on a weak wicket? Was that a deliberate attempt to push down the overvalued Indian rupee, in terms of the real effective exchange rates? Or is it a way to curb demand, where the depreciating rupee makes imports expensive. This is the flip side of the argument.

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