Our conversation from the Brookings Institution on Monetary Policy and inflation continues. Coming up, well hear from former fed chair ben bernanke and New York Times columnist and authored paul krugman. Thank you all for continuing the conversation. Its almost hard to believe theres anything left to say after those panels. So i was going to propose that we do this whole thing in rap. Or maybe in finnish, but i thought that was a little unfair given that i havent given the panel advanced warning of that. Thats right. Also, you wouldnt want to hear me. So i am joined here by Olivia Blanchard whos with the peterson institute, formerly of the International Monetary fund and m. I. T. Loretta mester, and ben beg your pardon ben bernanke, our colleague here at brookings, paul krugman, the economist at the university of new york and columnist for the New York Times. Krugman is the guy that makes all journalists nervous because he seems to be more productive than the rest of us and thats kind
Earnings here for twitter. Monetize a bill daley active users actually came in soft. Monetize a bowl monetizeable daily active users actually came in soft. That stuck down a whopping 10 now in premarket. Coming out ofbers twitter. In the markets, we are still going to be waiting and seeing what happens with marios press conference. With Mario Draghis press conference. The rate coming in now at 14 . There had been concerns because of conflict with syria that they wouldnt be able to cut rates because of volatility and we can inflation, but it appears they were able to do that. The ceasefire coming yesterday, sanctions being lifted by the white house. It is a 200 to be basis point cut for the turkish central bank. Time never the global exchange. We are going to bring you time now for the global exchange. We are going to bring you the mark moving news from around the world. We started in europe, where the regions economy continues to struggle. Rose,rea composite pmis missing estimates, but
Advance warning and so i am joined here by olivia who is now at the Peterson Institute and loretta who is the president of the Federal Reserve bank in cleveland and grenade the former fed chairman and paul crewmen the economist and Senior University of new york and columnist for the New York Times and he is the guy who make all journalists nervous because he seems to be more productive than the rest of us and that is kind of frightening given that he does all these other things at the side but we can discuss that later so i wanted to start by asking each of the panelists a little bit about what they took away from the conversation we had this morning. I want to start with olivier who made the observation, him inside the you see behind us about how they behave, perhaps one in this expected but prices arent rising so the question is, what the hell is going on . So i had prepared a slide in anticipation and i think it has survived the previous three hours fairly well and coincides with th
Questions relevant. Today one of the most vexing questions for people who participant in markets, but thats a different part of the world, is that inflation has refused to rise, much less persist, at the 2 targets. Key question is, why . While history will be the judge once the data has been interrogated, we dont have time for that, because todays policymakers and investors need to act and to do so require at least a rudimentary answer to this puzzle. Today we have gathered some of the leading experts in the world. Inflation didnt fall as much during the Great Recession as the models anticipated and hasnt risen as much lately. Is it dead or just dormant or has the death been much exaggerated. In my experience, wiped capitulation is the first sign of the bottom. Thats kind of where we are right now. Has Monetary Policy been so well anchored. Have globalization and Technology Made raising prizes difficult . Has the economy evolved in ways the models simply havent been incorporated . And
Would cut more than this. Alix but it looks like they actually cut more than expectations because it was 19. 75 , go into 16. 50 . It appears they did actually cut, so50 basis point it seems like it was a little deeper than even the most dovish expectations. 19. 75 , and was they cut it to 16. 5 percent. So it did exceed expectations. Alix but yet, you have the lira moving higher. I think that is never a good sign, when you have the currency moving higher when you have a 325 basis point cut. Interesting. We will have to watch that currency. That feels very much like the playbook last time we saw a cut from the turkish central bank. You have the, yes, turkish central bank. Now we are pushing ahead to the ecb. S p futures unreal, up over the 3000 mark. Hold . He rotation we seen we took a pause yesterday. Odollar euro firmer eurodollar a little firmer this morning into the ecb. A little bit of wiggle room when he market. Youre seeing a little bit of buying in the bond market in the u. S.