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Friday, August 15, 2014

FT Interview - RBI Chief Rajan

Raghuram Rajan - India's Central Bank Governor
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b049ce16-230e-11e4-a424-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3ASrTK7CC

Rajan’s key insights:
“ …“Six years since the financial crisis, central banks still have their foot fully on the accelerator  . . . [pushing] credit into emerging markets,” he says. “We don’t know how this will end . . .  It may end smoothly, if we let the air out of these inflated markets slowly, or by a series of mini-crises. But it may be more dramatic if, one fine day, suddenly the world realises the US is going to raise interest rates quite quickly . . . then the air will go out much faster.”
Even worse, he says, is a broader pattern of globalisation beset by repeated crises, as developed and developing worlds fail to co-ordinate, sending capital washing back and forth between them, violently destabilising their financial systems.”