Blundell-Wignall: Cut fiscal fetish

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Adrian Blundell-Wignall making more sense today:

Monetary policy cannot “fix” stag-deflation in the West, the fundamental cause of which is excess investment in certain parts of the world.

…Here we are with 11 years of the easiest global monetary policy in history and we see not only little inflation but also weakening economic growth. This lack of response to monetary stimulus will remain a puzzle if we fail to recognise that the problems faced sit squarely on the real side of the economy.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.