PRINTING CURRENCY IS GOING TO BE THE WAY OUT TO REVIVE ECONOMIES POST COVID-19
PRINTING CURRENCY IS GOING TO BE THE
WAY OUT
TO REVIVE ECONOMIES POST COVID-19
It
is expected that all kinds of Nations across the world will be compelled and
will find the only way out to print currencies to revive their economies. Every
Nation globally is announcing or has already announced without having a choice,
huge amounts of stimulus packages to bring the derailed economies back to
tracks after Covid-19 episode and measures like lock down to contain it at the
cost of jeopardizing the economies. It would be futile to expect that such huge
funding globally would in any way be possible to be met by IMF (International
Monetary Fund) or World Bank or other such multilateral funding/development
organizations by loan route as normally done when the Nations come under any
crisis situation under normal circumstances in the world. The massive fund
outlays announced can only be backed by printing lot of currency at every
central bank (RBI, the Reserve Bank of India is the central bank in India). The
modality of bond buying or myriad ways of financial operations that can adopted
between the Central Banks and the Sovereign Governments, but printing of currency
and a lot of it, will be the only way out. It will not be known to public and
it is never disclosed in public but will happen. The efficiency of the Finance
Ministry of the Government concerned or generally the skill of the Govt and the
Central Bank handling it and channeling it appropriately to contain
inflationary pressure in the economy will be the key for performance of the
economy. Since it is expected that the economies will contract due to lack of
demand and loss of consumption or uptake of Goods and Services ( meaning there
would be deflation ), printing of currency to place more money in circulation
to place purchasing power in the hands of people to hasten demand will not
raise inflation that much as normally believed. It is believed that
India will have to print a lot of it through the RBI to find way out post
Covid-19 and more over the call for “ Atma Nirbhar Bharat “ ( self reliant
India ) will need a lot of it to be done. If Indian Economy contracts by 1% (
that can be said as -1% growth in demand ) can accommodate about Rs. 200000
Crores ( or Rs. 2000 billions ) printing and pumping of currency into the
economy to neutralize the contraction in demand ( presuming with hastened
purchasing power the demand would grow in positive direction). There are
published reports that Indian economy may even contract in between 3-9% during
the financial years 2020 and 2021. My expectation is without any bias and
based on facts of reality as exists in the world today, it is no prediction by
astrology or black magic, it is the pure understanding of behaviourial
economics and understanding of sovereign economic behaviours.
Good analysis
ReplyDelete