Jun 18, 2011 09:17
12 yrs ago
English term

too loose too long

English Bus/Financial Finance (general)
Timothy Geithner said to PBS's Charlie Rose: "But I would say there were three types of broad errors of policy, and policy both here and around the world. One was that monetary policy around the world was too loose too long. And that created this just huge boom in asset prices, money chasing risk. People trying to get a higher return. that was just overwhelmingly powerful."
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for too long it wasn't tight enough

It means that for too long, monetary policy was "loose", too relaxed, not strict or tight enough.

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Note added at 10 mins (2011-06-18 09:27:45 GMT)
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Definition found:
" "loose" policy is also often referred to as "expansionary" policy, and "tight" policy is often called "deflationary" policy."
http://spoteconomics.blogspot.com/2011/01/no-175-about-loose...

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Note added at 13 mins (2011-06-18 09:30:57 GMT)
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Further down that same page: "Here, the government has loosened the Monetary Policy tap. Lower interest rates encourage households and firms to take out credit and then spend it, increasing the flow of demand in the economy.
Peer comment(s):

agree Charles Davis
10 mins
agree Jack Doughty
12 mins
agree B D Finch
18 mins
agree Stephanie Ezrol
1 hr
agree Martin Riordan
2 hrs
agree Liz Dexter (was Broomfield)
4 hrs
agree Editor James
5 hrs
agree eski : Nice work, Nesrin; eski :))
8 hrs
agree Jive
11 hrs
agree Yasutomo Kanazawa
1 day 4 hrs
agree Phong Le
3 days 4 hrs
agree Thuy-PTT (X)
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