Former BoJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said in a summit in Shanghai that there is a “Japanification” of monetary and fiscal policy in the world. And, “policy makers and mainstream academics are still obsessed with a specter of deflation.”
He added that the goal of monetary and fiscal stimulus should only be to “bring future demand to the present”. But, “the capacity to front-load will be restrained by the country’s potential growth rate, which will be kept low as perpetual low interest rates keep inefficient firms alive.”
