Wednesday, October 23, 2013

RBI should not meddle with INR - the new media hoopla !



As suggested earlier in my blogs that the INR should be allowed to float free and it will be best that it finds its own inherent value. Not only country’s CAD has evaporated at the levels which the INR has brushed over the period of last month, but the trade deficit too has significantly diminished.
 
This could only have been possible with the depreciation of the INR, though some would argue that this depreciation would cause inflationary pressures. But these pressures shall be short term which will subside over a longer term. The currency’s depreciation will have miniscule effect on the inflation as a whole.

It has been proved since time immortal that a weak currency always helps in the exports, whatever little may it be. It eventually adds up to the growth of a nation.

Monday, October 7, 2013

RBI - Raghuram Rajan's new joke !

The Finance Ministry recently announced that it will provide banks with additional liquidity so as to finance cheap loans for automobiles & consumer goods this festive season; to help the middle class population of our country. Though announced by the Fin-Min, but what is amusing and surprising is that this was done after taking a nod from the RBI governor. Ahem!

The RBI governor who in his previous review of the monetary policy said that it is imperative for the RBI to target and fight inflation first and then look for recovery and growth in the economy had hence increased repo rate by 25bps. This was seen as a move to reduce and contain inflation, which is still at a level more than the reserve banks comfort level. And then soon Fin-Min announces a release of liquidity into the system by providing cheap loans.

Even a naïve will know