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...conservatives in the Wide Coalition of Principalists, who are critical of Ahmadinejad's policies. Both protested the announcement by Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi - before the counting was even complete - that the United Principalists had won 71% of the seats. "The Interior Minister who is supposed to be a neutral body clearly crossed a red line," wrote one reformist commentator...
...like to call us Switzerland—it’s a neutral place, where two schools, who might have sort of different agendas but want to do something together,” Buckley said in October about the collaboration...
...below the central bank's target, and whether economic growth is above or below its "full employment" potential. If inflation is at target and the economy is operating at full employment, then the Taylor Rule says that the central bank should set the overnight interest rate at a fixed "neutral" level, which Taylor estimated was 4% for the U.S. with inflation running at a targeted rate...
...Taylor Rule provides less guidance when the neutral interest rate is shifting rapidly due to changes in financial conditions, which is exactly what is happening right now. Banks and other lenders are demanding a higher premium for lending to households and companies. To prevent the cost of borrowing from increasing - to keep interest rates at neutral, in other words - the central bank must cut the policy rate. If the central bank wants then to provide monetary stimulus to an ailing economy, it must reduce the policy rate even further to get below the newly depressed neutral rate...
...central bank does not act quickly enough - and deteriorating financial conditions create a self-perpetuating feedback loop with a collapsing economy - the bank may end up just "chasing the neutral rate down" without reaching the level needed to jump-start demand. Japan's experience in the 1990s provides a cautionary tale: even 0% rates failed to resuscitate the economy...