Surveillance: Debt Pressure with Malpass

every second year, in every minute. Right now at these meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, an annual visit with David malpass outgoing President of the World Bank, and instead of talking World Bank affairs, aid to the world, and the struggles of the war in Ukraine, we will hearken back to mister melpass this moment of seven and O eight. More than anyone in this building and set of buildings, he lived front and center at bear Stearns

previous financial collapse. David, thank you so much for being with us. I'm not going to ask you an easy question like does it allude back to O eight right now? But the stresses that you see right now in American banking, in the huge tensions between China and the United States. Does it lead to that word suddenly where suddenly things can change as they did in O eight Hi Tom Hi everyone. So there were big there was a maturity mismatch going on then too, and it maybe from the

same causes. Remember in the two thousands, interest rates were being raised very slowly, and so that built up a giant maturity mismatch, which some companies were funding with repose funding treasuries, so in the treasury bonds, and so in that way it hearkens to now we have in the US banking system some banks are funding treasury bonds with the posts. But a big difference now is the biggest

duration mismatch is the Federal Reserve itself. It funds with users overnight borrowing to fund a giant bond portfolio some nine trillion dollars, the European Central Bank eight trillion dollars. And I think the dominant feature now is the asset allocation that came out of that. If you have giant buyers of long maturity of duration, in effect, the central banks were buying giant duration. And so what that meant

is it distorted all world markets. And we're now in the workout phase there'll have to be a normalization of interest rates. It means pressure on asset prices for a long period of time. That's what's showing up in the meetings here. The expectation that they'll be weak growth for a while put pressure on people in developing countries throughout the world, and that pressure is getting intense. Frame the distinction between the World Bank weak growth call and that

of your colleagues at the International Monetary Fund. Both of you, to editorialize, have been grim. What's the mail passion level of grim in your forecast? Ours are a little weaker than the IMFs, but remember they often do one in purchasing power parodies, so if you adjust for that, there's not that much difference. We use market based exchange rates, and so ours is two and there's I think would

work out to two point four. So they're both week week forecast for twenty twenty three, and that's showing up. In the US. You saw the Federal Reserves saying maybe in the US recession mild recession in the second right. What's great about this is mail pass uses a slide rule from Colorado College, very killed. So this is growth. Let's talk about debt. If we can. This is something you've been really outspoken about, David, over the last few years.

China the world's biggest creditor to paw nations. I understand there's been some conversations this week. What's that now, if we could start that, and then if you could tell me whether you're satisfied with it. The debt has grown up over the years. The composition of the debt is different from in the old days. That used to be US banks that were lending to foreign countries. Now we have China and the euro bond market lending to developing

countries sovereign debt. So there was extensive talk yesterday. I co chaired with Crystallina the debt roundtable. China came at the level of the PBOC governor and also the Ministry of Finance of China and so they participate in the discussion and there was there were some agreements. There was agreements that there needed to be more timeliness of the launching into a restructuring process, that there needed to be data sharing. China's asked from the beginning, can't we get

the data earlier? That hasn't been the tradition, but that's going to be and there's a there's a paper to do that. Also a working group which is important on the technicalities of burden sharing. How do you have equal burden sharing among creditors so that they all participate in

the restructuring process of the debt. This is really important to the people in developing countries because their governments are paying these large, high not low interest rate kind of market rate or above market rate debt and it means it's draining the countries of what they need for nutrition, for health, for education, for climate adaptation. Are you satisfied with what China is committed? So would you need to see more? We need to see this week and it

was mentioned last night. Yesterday there were big meetings, so we had the G twenty meeting, the G seven meeting of finance ministers, the Development Committee, the governors of the World Bank met and expressed strong support for the World Bank leadership. There were and there was discussion at the G twenty even late last night of the specific countries that needed to get action on debt relief. Zambia was here.

I had a panel earlier this week with the Zambian finance Minister, the Ethiopian finance minister, they're burdened by high levels of debt. So the proof is in the pudding. The details of is Zambia going to get an mu we'd like to see one this week. China needs to be willing to sign off on the structure of the restructuring. One big question has been transparency and a lack of it, and a lack of understanding of just how much debt China has extended to in a lot of developing nations.

Do you walk away from the meetings yesterday with a greater sense of how much debt they currently have tied to the developing world. We know quite a bit about it, but not the full extent. And there were calls yesterday and there's specific discussion of this that some people say swap lines by China into banks should be left out of the restructuring. Some say it should be included in the restructuring. There was talk about what to do with arrear.

So as these restructurings drag on, the interest on the interest goes up and up, So can you agree in advance on how to handle that? And so it gets straight into the details. There was a there was a proposal made that it well the proposals across the board on how to handle this. So I think there's lots more work to be done, but at least there's a technical or a workshop that's going to be set up to bring people up to speed on how you calculate

net present value reduction within a debt restructuring. Would you identify this and everything we've just discussed over the last few minutes as these number one issue that you'll hunt it obit to your successor at the World Bank? Well, certainly debt transparency is a giant issue. There was there was a call yesterday for the debt or countries to

release the contracts that have non disclosure clauses. So that's a specific thing that will be that will outlast me and it's not going to get resolved this week, but I hope it does. You know, the the China is written into the contracts non disclosure clauses. That was specifically discussed. So as we look toward the future, I think what I'm handing over to my successor is a World Bank

that's in really good shape. That was that was a main theme from yet from yesterday's meetings, but also in a developing world that's under this giant pressure from too much debt but also not enough growth coming out of the advanced economies. Well, this won't be the end of our conversations. You know that. It's great to catch up,

divid ass always diapid malpass. Next to see the president some of the world banks right now, an annual visit as we do with these meetings with Gida Gopinath's first deputy Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund, and once you she has done critically in the last ninety days is drive forward the discussion of crisis and monetary policy and how we're going to extract ourselves from this math. Doctor Gopenath, thank you so much for joining this morning.

You mentioned buried in your wonderful essay this scary idea that inflation becomes unanchored. Is inflation unanchored at this point? No, not at this point. I think if you look at the data, it's queerly anchored, and the US and Europe and several other countries. That is not a consent right now. The concern right now off of the five year forecast. It's your fault. We all know that. But the IMF five year forecast that we have three percent or even lower.

The World Bank even set a little bit lower means a disinflation, it means a lower rate regime. If we haven't an unanchored or an anchor disinflation, does that lead to financial stability within your forecast? If inflation expectations the anchor, there are multiple problems associated with that. Firstly, interest rates

go up. Policy rates have to rise much faster to bring inflation down, and that can generate much greater financial stress than we have seen with consequences not just for the country where the tightening is happening, but if you're a large economy with spillover to the rest of the world.

So that could be very consequential. And it's one of the downside scenarios we have in our world economic outlook, which is if interest rates have to go up much faster and you have much more tightening, you could end up with global growth going as low as say one percent, which is would be very bad. So what is the nominal GDP separation of the IMF five year forecast? Is it for a dropping disinflation or lower inflation and with it lower real GDP bringing us down to a truly

subdued nominal GDP now we have. Our expectation is that inflation will be conquered in over time. It's not going to happen immediately, but if you go into twenty twenty four, you're going to see inflation around the world getting much closer to central bank targets. Real growth is going to slow also because we don't have any China's anymore that

are growing at very high rate. So for the global economy as a whole, we don't have very large engines of growth, so that's generating the weakness and real growth. Also because we have aging demographics, so unless we can find a way to raise productivity, you know, we are going to struggle with low growth. How controversial has your call been that inflation is going to get back down to where it was close to pre pandemic even by

twenty twenty four. You know, if you look at focus and if you look at market expectations in the US, you see an even more rapid fall in inflation that's expected. So we are actually on the side of being a little more cautious about how long it's going to take to bring inflation down, but we think the policies will work.

There's been some very substantial increase in interest rates we are seeing now that show up in terms of high frequency data, this slowing of the economy, and we think that will bring down inflation, but it will take time.

Do you think that the balance of risks has shifted since what we saw with silicon valid banking, with some of the other banking institutions, and the huge dropoff in lending that we've seen periphery in initial data, that the balance of risks has shifted to perhaps have monetary officials be a little less aggressive when it comes to great hikes and to err on the side of pausing or

even cutting. As always, central banks need to take into account how economic conditions look, and with the financial stress, you've had a tightening in financial conditions, bank lending standards have tightened, smaller banks, credit has weakened and will slow the economy down to some extent, which is why central

marks may have to do less. But again, I think we're still waiting for more data to show up to know exactly how much of an effect that's Hey Agata, there's a bit of tension between what the IMF has communicated this week and what politicians have responded with Chancellor Hunt told us yesterday that he disagrees with your forecast. He's entitled to disagree with it. I spoke and we spoke to to be a Sadrian literally in the last hour, and he said he sees evidence of lending bank lending

contracting in America. Secretary Yellen says she didn't see evidence of that. How'd you explain the daylight between what your institution is saying and what politicians are saying back? So, firstly, I think if you look at the numbers, we're not that far apart. Right. So, for instance, in the case of the UK, I think what Jeremy Hunt would recognize is that we've actually had a substantial upgrade for UK for this year. It's just that we haven't gone as

high as maybe some of the other focus. We've actually seen things turn out better than expected in the UK. In the case of credit conditions, again, I think the difference is that Tobias was pointing to all of credit supply, not just from the large banks, and so you see that in the smaller banks, you see certainly credit supply slowing, but if you look at the large banks, indeed credit is holding up. See don't believe the Treasury sectary is misleading us when she says things like she doesn't see

evidence of bank lending contracting. I think that's the description that, especially if you look at large banks, you're seeing credit holding up. Is an accurate representation again of the data. At this point, I look at where we are and I wonder of the textbooks and the theory that's out there. It seems like everybody's post pandemic supply driven dynamics making it up as they go, and the day to day Gopeneth grind is putting together the Blue Bug the world

economic outlook. How much are you relying on a traditional economics versus going it's a whole new world after all? Well, I think there are pots that are new, and then there are parts that are old and stay the same. So we're using a combination of models, but also going beyond is our start and valid model? Right now? You and I are going to be with Olivia Blanchard tomorrow. He's trumpeting the dynamics of our start. Is it useful?

Is there an efficacy traditional to traditional John Williams economics start? I think it's a very useful input in thinking about how to fashion monetary policy. And also fiscal policy. I think again, it's an input you cannot be that cannot be the only thing one is focused on. I think

that's what the pandemic in the war is not. A lot of people say that this group of meetings is somewhat different in nature than previous ones, just because we feel like we're on the precipice of some sort of turning point, either back to what we came from or something new. How would you characterize it in terms of how these meetings are different? I think this meeting is different to the extent that I think we are in this period where after all the marshal policy tightening that's happened,

we are seeing the effect of it. Because we know all this tighting works with a lag, So I think this is the lag and we're seeing it play out now. There are concerns about how this could play out. You know, as of now, financial policy tools have worked well in being able to calm markets, but there are risks that are out there. The second aspect is we are looking at a period where growth in the world is not going to go back to the three point eight percent

it used to be, but more three percent. And lastly, we have many vulnerable economies around the world with very high levels of debt and could be in debt to stress. So you know, I think we have to all, first of all, recognize that the world economy did better than expected last year. It showed much strong resilience. We still have tight labor markets, consumption spending is still holding up. But that said, the balance of risks are squarely to the downside. That last point so important. Up in a

half of the MFA to thank you. As always, it's going to catch up and going to see it. Parlor Gentle Learney joint us. Now that E Commissioner for Economy and Financial's Commissioner, good morning, good morning. We won't to talk about you. They don't worry about it. I want to talk about something much more difficult. Let's start with this question. Does Europe have a coherent approach to China? And if you do, what is it? Well? I think

we do have. This is the obvious answer. It is evolved this attitude since three four years Our attitude until three four years ago was the attitude of well, we have important trade relations and whatever they are, we will strengthen this relations. Now I think we are very clearly

on the perspective to rebalance these trade relations. Who also leave behind a certain ingenuity that we had in hoping that this trade relations in themselves would be in an equal treatment in a level playing field, which was not

completely the case. So we are still cooperating economically, but we have also a geopolitical perspective which is of course quite different from China, and it is the perspective of our partners and US and the Western I wonder, how liar, if your view commission is different to the view of the French President. I'll share some of his language with political the weekend. He said, the great risk that you're a faces is that it gets caught up in crises

that are not ours. He's talking about China and Taiwan and potentially just following whatever the United States does. Do you agree with that sentiment. No, I agree on the fact that we should avoid this kind of crisis. But of course if this crisis occur, we know which side we are in. I look at Italy and I have to bring this up. In an American football this would be called an audible. I'm going to change gears here

on what's unspoken. The stunning statistics and you as former Prime Minister of Italy can speak to this of a birth rate in Italy post pandemic. It takes you back to eighteen sixty one. The demographic driving forces that we face at these meetings are enormous. Are we depeopling the Western world? I think we run a risk. I think this risk particularly clear in Europe, especially in Eastern Europe, but indeed also in my country and other European countries.

How do we face this challenge? Well, I think we should continuously look to our perspective in a not only in a horizontal way. I mean Europe and its big eastern neighbor Europe and Russia. Right, we need vertical way. Knowing that Europe, the Mediterranean, the Arab world, Africa, this clock will have in twenty fifty two point five billion people and we need cooperation legal mygration. This is of course joined with internal policies that are increasing geography. This

is the solution. Well, the European experiment forward has to be and I'm percolating out there is an optimism about a better nominal GDP for Europe. Do we still have eurosclerosis or should I say the risks of eurosclerosis or view broken free of that, as Joan mentions with a new relationship with China among others. Well, I think, well, we love living in Europe. I think it's we are proud of our values, our culture, but we should not think ourselves and if possible, the world to Europe as well.

What a beautiful place with such a good values, wonderful culture, etc. Because Europe is also the place where innovation happens. Are you using a new nominal GDP in Europe? Have you broken free from the euros courosis theme of decades? I think there is a chance to do so. Why there is this chance because I think, for the first time, the europe I mean, in this case, the European Union is thinking itself as an actor on the global race

to innovation, to clean technology. What in our brass language we call strategic autonomy is something completely new for Europe. Our idea of the European economy was until three four years ago, the idea of a economic single market based on competition and open trade full stone. Now the European Union, with plans of strategic autonomy is a European Union fighting

for innovation. Just quickly here, how much is that new vision at odds with a vision that the United States has in terms of a cohesive trade relationship with China and a cohesive trade relationship across the Atlantic. Well, I think we should be recognizing the fact that we will have in the coming years a sort of race to clean technology in the world, a race with the US, a race among the economic global player, a rice for subsidies. The problem is to avoid that this become a race

for subsidies. And the risk is this to avoid is that this undermine the relation with our partners. I'm very optimistic from this point of view because with the Americans, with Canada, with other countries, with Japan, we cooperate very well. Everyone recognize that Europe has the right and the duty to provide security to its own supply chains of the future. I think that this is clear for all our partners.

So the problem is how we participate to this phrase for clean technology without transforming it in a subsidies war and in a tension among partners, and without transforming this in a reduction of global trade. Difficult balance to find. But if we don't find this balance, if we don't have global trade for an economic block that like the European Union. Yeah, it's a big problem. Commissioner, thank you,

Thank you very much. Politant to learning that. The Area Commissioner for Economic and Financially Fast Tobias Adrian is Director of Monetarian Capital Markets at the IMF. What that means he's in charge of the green book and all around financial stability here. He has enjoyed a recent American banking crisis. You people put out PhD fancy spider charts which show the different factors that are of challenge right now, Which spider chart in Which factor in that chart matters right now? Yeah?

So I think what we have seen in recent months is that banking stocks have sold off quite a bit, in particular in US and Europe, but the market more broadly has been fairly stable. So financial conditions have tightened to some extent, but it's really in the banking sector that we have seen most of the tightening, and that could have consequences down the line. For microactivity. I want to go to your work at m I two with

Olivia Blanchard. He's all the rage. He's my book of the summer with wonderful difference equations on our starred folding. The theory right now to the hardcore pragmatic realities of macroeconomics. Does theory matter right now? Does our start matter? Absolutely. We published a chapter just earlier this week that is looking at our star and in our assessment, and that is very much aligned with what the market pricing is telling us as well, is that interest rates are going

to come down in the medium term. Of course, at the moment they elevated, center banks have to fight inflation and then have to keep monetary policy tight. But over time we do expect interest rates to come back down to our star, which we estimate to be similar to pre COVID. Do you think we've seen evidence that this banking system can't handle interest right to close to five percent of the Federal Reserve. There's certainly stress in the

banks and in the non banking system. Right We have seen turbulens in both banks and non bank financial institutions. And there's always a distribution of how much exposure there is to interest rate risks, to duration risk, and some of the weaker players have been under tremendous stress, and there's certainly possibilities that further stress could be triggered at

some point. Clearly, there were some badly managed institutions, and we won't talk about them individually, but one FED officials said earlier this week that he does not think that it was because the Federal Reserve went from zero to five in twelve months. Is that an assessment that you share? So I don't think it's the speed per see that is at play here, But I do think that the rise in interest rates has been putting pressure on institutions.

That these unrealized losses, which are in the public domain and which have made headlines around the events over the past month, Well, do you think, just to sort of put a bow on this, do you think that the stress shows that it is not worth it to necessarily raise rates further from here and cause that sort of more systemic stress in order to more rapidly get inflation back down to where it was pre pandemic. So the first order goal for center banks at the moment is

to bring inflation back to target. I think there's no question about that, and both the US policymakers and the Swiss policymakers have been very successful in deploying other tools to ensure financial stability. There were aggressive actions in terms of lending and deposit insurance to contain any fallout, and that allows monetary policy to continue to tighten to fight inflation. Inflation is a big problem and inflation has to come

back to target. We've talked a lot about trying to separate two things, financial stability from a monetary policy fighting inflation. They're getting a little fuzzier, especially from the minutes where clearly you have FED officials pulling back from some of the rate hikes. Do you think that a credit crunch is disinflationary? They're certainly going to be an impact from the higher cost of capital of banks on their bank

lending behavior. We have numbers in the GFSR. We estimate that to be about zero point four five percent in the US and the similar magnitude in Europe. So there is going to be an impact in our assessment from bank lending on real output, and that of course is

going to feed back into monitor policy decisions. Absolutely. Okay, So basically, do you think that right now developed markets should not raise rates further and that they should just tolerate inflation being higher perhaps a bit longer, with faith that it will get back in the eye rest view to where it was pretty pandemic. So We don't have the definite answer yet. It depends on releases around inflation. There could be upside surprises to inflation that may need

further tightening of monetary policy. So you know, policy going forward is very much dependent on data, in particular on how core inflation evolves. Let's talk about the data that might influence how core inflation evolves. Have you seen evidence that credit is contracting the bank lending is contracting in America? Oh? Absolutely. We have seen a couple of data releases that have shown a certain amount of tightening in credit underwriting standards as well as in the overall level of credit. Can

I be blunted? Then? What on earth was State Treasury secretary talking about earlier this week? So I would distinguish a baseline and an address scenario, and I think the Treasure Secretary was talking about the baseline. When you look at markets, you know, the market implied inflation is coming back to show it fairly quickly. You're being kind because I think she said she saw no evidence of lending contracting,

and you've said, we do. Yeah. Absolutely, there's certainly evidence in the data of some contraction and lending and some tightening of lending. Standards at least, So what a situation some real daylight again between the IMF and we're all looking at the same data, and the politicians and the Treasury Secretary and the IMF is one example. Chancellor Hunt is another example of the same thing. Although that's a bad projection and not realized information. But still we dismissed

that as politics. But I would love you your answer without to bus what the policy implications are of the politics of not reflecting the pain that is likely to occur when you get the policy prescription that you think is necessary to bring down inflation. So absolutely, I think monetary policy is being tightened, and that is partially transmitted through bank lending. That's the classic bank lending channer. And you know, to get information down, of course, economic activity

has to come down to some degree. We're out of time. But I've got one real important question. I'm going to bounce off Robin Wigglesworth's wonderful tour to force on debt in China and restructuring today and the ft. Just simply, if China is reticent to join the West in restructuring debt, does that change your financial stability? So many countries are in debt restructuring negotiations, and there are many players that

are important. You're mentioning one of them, and for those countries it is extremely first order to get the debt restructured for the moment. The countries dat are impacted are smaller countries, so relative to global capital markets, I think that will not lead to broader contagion. The basis is wonderful. Thanks for waking up early, miss. Right now, this is

a joy. As you well know, there were one hundred and forty two books written on the crisis of seven o eight oh nine, and singularly definitive was fault Lines as we face new fault lines now. The author was Rag and Roger of the University of Chicago Boost School, and is follow on book. The third pillar was my

book of the summer ages ago. The former head of the Indian Central Bank joins us this morning, and we could go for two hours rago, and we don't have it because I know, I think you're heading for the airport, so let's get right to it right now. Olivier Blanchard is looking at dynamics of our starting growth. The developed worlds looking at this the emerging market world and their fragilities are looking at it right now. How close are we to an instability of where we need to be

versus the growth rate we're going to we hope to see. Well, we have still a economy in the US which is not landing right, it's chugging along. The first quarter looks pretty good. The problem is more with the medium term. What happens when all the stimulus plays through, What happens when the stimulus from the Inflation Reduction Act plays through

to be slowed down? And what you're seeing in many emerging markets is a lot of damage done by the pandemic, which is also going to hold them back going forward in terms of consumption. For example, the lower middle class deeply hurt during the pandemic. Slowly recovering, but it's going to take time. And of course we've got all these overheads such as the tariffs, the deglobalization, the conflicts, the attempt to so in terms of longer term growth, it

doesn't look good. I think the IMF exactly right. Longer term growth looks a lot worse. Of course, where our star settles after that, there are conflicting forces, the IMF says low Larry Summer says Hi, My sense is low that yes, you may get an inflation premium tacked onto the real interest rate. There is equilibrium, but it's not

going to go back to high levels. Roger Tim from Cupertino emails and thanks for watching this morning, Tim, and he says, China in India, you are the number one expert we have in the world on the dynamics of these two great nations versus a new America. Explain to us how you see twenty four months out Washington, Beijing and all of India. Well, I would hope that we don't go down the path we're on with between Washington and Beijing. That's the key relationship in the world that

is fracturing. I hope they talk more. They're not they should. That's important for the rest of the world because if you have to choose sides, countries will be in a very, very difficult position. Of course, there is hope that some country like India will take up the growth engine from China. That's not going to happen for a long time. India

is one fifth the size of the Chinese economy. Even if India grows at you know, historic China like growth rates, which is which is still ways away and it needs to do a lot to get there. India is not going to be a substitute for China. What is important is India do what it does really well. India could be a big exporter of services. You're seeing service exports in India go through the roof. And these are things not just it exports. These are new forms of services.

For example, consulting services being produced from India's not just the back office of old it's new consultants actually facing clients. It's lawyers facing clients. That's I think a mode for the future that's going to help growth across the world. Bring us here to the here and now. Back in two thousand and five, you're the head of the IMF Economics Department and you warnt about a banking crisis. Larry Summers,

at the time Treasure Secretary called you a luddyed. Do you think that we are in the precipice of some sort of financial crisis or significant credit crunch that is underappreciated. I think we're not over yet. How bad it gets we will have to see. I think this problem is more systemic. We sort of putting it on a few banks, right These are the guys who splurged, you know, they didn't do the right thing. The fact is, when you have quantitative easing of the kind we had in the pandemic,

you know, Federal Reserve expanding its bannsheet tremendously. What happens, well, commercial banks also have to expand their bannsheet. They expand it by issuing uninsured demand deposits. Uninsured demand deposits went up by trillions of dollars during the pandemic and they haven't come down. So the sources of fragility are there. Right, you're bringing down reserves, but these guys still have a lot of demand deposits out there now we've seen that.

Of course, where those deposits were invested also matters, if they were invested in long term you know, securities. You're seeing those losses per me through the banandsheets or the banks, and there will be problems going forward. The question is, as you pointed out earlier, how does this play out in terms of the credit crunch which is coming. Are their substitutes? Does private credit, for example, pick up some of the slack from the banking system. That's a big unknown.

But accidents, I think we can't say we're overall our credit crunch is inherently disinflationary. They are, they are. I mean they're going to tighten. So you could argue supply side, demand side, right, but I think the net effect is disinflationary typically, So yes, it will do the Fed's job a little for it, but the FED doesn't know if it's coming. The FED doesn't know how much. And right now, you know, while the numbers look good, you're still looking

at things like services inflation, which is still strong. So the Fed count relax at this point on the inflationary front, even though you know from the credit front it probably should be a little software. You were really moved by your interview Rug, Who's colleague Luigi Zingallis frame that with the professor from both school group think? The fate of the Federal Reserve on both monetary policy and on regulation.

Do you think the institutions like the one we're in right now this morning, the Federal Reserve, which we talk about often, still suffers from group think? And if you do, how on earth are we going to address that? Look, I think the one thing that seems to be off the table and the discussions is the role monetary policy has played in creating financial fragility, Right, we've sort of put that off the table. We don't talk about it

at all. And you have to believe that three crises in two decades it has to have played some role. And to put it off the table and say, look, it's the private sec it's the financial sector doing it's stuff. They've got bad incentives. Well, that's part of the problem. That's not the entire problem. Now we're saying supervisors were also private from what about monetary policy? What about for example, quee?

Wasn't that part of what created the frigility that in fact we're seeing now, And that's why we need organizations like the IMAP to start talking. They're very hesitant to complain about central banks of the industrial world because those

guys have more economists than the IMF. Sometimes I hate Unfortunately we're out of time and I could talk about this all day, but it's the establishment of view still dominates the conversation, and I think that this institution that we're lucky enough to sit in this morning is it's part of the problem on that front. It needs to make a bigger argument. Rock around Racha always fantastic Thank you Rocky, Thank you Racky Racha at the University of Chicago,

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