Thursday, November 1, 2012

Do RBI Rate Cuts Matter?

To debate the relevance of the country's central bank might seem facetious or plain dumb. But too much is being made of the central bank's failure to cut policy rates. It is being accused of being dogmatic on inflation, of not seeing the parlous state of growth. All such passion stems from assuming that the RBI's policy rates matter the way central bank action matters in the US or Europe. This assumption is fatally flawed. The RBI is largely irrelevant to large swathes of the economy............

Read - ET

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