Friday, February 15, 2013

Inflation falls. That’s bad news

......................To be sure, one can expect the RBI Governor Duvvuri Subbarao to cut rates to revive the economy when he reviews monetary policy in mid-March. He may even surprise with a pre-policy cut. “But,” said said an economist with a foreign bank who did not wish to be named, “for rate cuts to have a meaningful impact on the economy, it takes a huge lag of 6 months or more.” It’s not a very comforting picture, in the interim.

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