Yesterday,
I strongly insinuated that easy monetary policy enriches the financial
sector at the expense of the wider society. I realise that I need to
illustrate this more fully than just to say that when the central bank
engages in monetary policy, the financial sector gets the new money
first and so receives an ex nihilo transfer of purchasing power (the Cantillon Effect).
The first inkling I had that this could be the case was looking at
the effects of quantitative easing (monetary base expansion) on equities
(S&P500 Index), corporate profits and employment.
http://azizonomics.com/2012/08/08/does-easy-monetary-policy-enrich-the-financial-sector/
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