Monetary levers big and small

.....Sadly, unlike a Rube Goldberg cartoon, where the ultimate purpose is something laughably trivial, like activating a napkin to wipe someone's mouth after each spoonful of food, the intent of monetary policy is the deadly serious business of stabilising the economic environment. In the cartoon, we get to observe what the napkin does. In the case of monetary policy, the official data as reported at present simply do not help to assess the speed and extent of transmission to borrowers from the banking system.........

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