I posted an update in social media, and people brought in fantastic angles of the story to the fore. It turned out to be a very lively and intense debate, sure to benefit anyone who reads through the whole thing. Enjoy the heated debate, in all shades! I have not edited the comments.
Sandeep Manudhane:
Munish Sharma: Perfectly put Mr Talwar.
Sunil Talwar: we need fresh infusion of capital, money that will not move out of india like it does today, in the stock market or other investments. we money to stay back in india and put to productive use
Sandeep Manudhane: Bingo. That's precisely why I started my status with "It's quite amazing..."
Sunil Talwar: rbi seems to have forgotten basics of economics and its application
Munish Sharma: Just a counter argument: The monetary tightening effected so far by the Reserve Bank has helped in containing inflation and anchoring inflationary expectations, though both remain at levels beyond the Reserve Bank’s comfort zone. As monetary policy operates with a lag, the cumulative impact of policy actions should now be increasingly felt in further moderation in demand and reversal of the inflation trajectory towards the later part of 2011-12. As such, a premature change in the policy stance could harden inflationary expectations, thereby diluting the impact of past policy actions. It is, therefore, imperative to persist with the current anti-inflationary stance.
Sandeep Manudhane: Yes, that's why it's politically unpalatable - action happens, results take time. But RBI Guv need not bother about political feedback, he is not an elected official.
Ajay Pal: True sir..and addition to this RBI increased the Repo rate and revers repo rate with 0.25% which is the 12th hike after 2010. And i think due to this GDP growth rate, which was 8.8% in June 2010 has been decreased to 7.7%.
Sunil Talwar: this is the simplest traditional way in Monetary Control Toolkit that Governor Saab can apply..Grow up its not 1947.. keeping all arguments and counter arguments in mind, the only thing that looms large is that there is a larger than life cost of living which is difficult to service. cost of real estate, cost of education, cost of medication, cost of travel, cost of food, cost of capital. way too high and the future estimates of costs dropping also looks very bad. we need to re look at what and how we produce and not at what and how we cost it or buy it. we need to make more for what we invest. we need to be able to service our loans and investments better
Sohil Mahendru: @ sunil talwar that is what the point is the basic resources are the vital point rest is the game of numbers. Economy and all things depends on demand and supply.
Sohil Mahendru: Sandeep Manudhane sir dont you think there are various factors which had given rise to " Mahangayi "? Just to say resources used in non-vegetarian meal are far more those used in one vegetarian meal. To prepare one chicken it has to be given, so much grains and water other stuff. On the contrary if those resources were used to provide food to other people. More than 200 people in our country can fill there stomach, all the poverty could have been ended its just the thing in which way we can interpret.
Sunil Talwar: by rbi increasing interest rates, they effectively dampen the run on money in the immediate short term and once the rates cool down with a slight relaxation the fires are back in action. we are facing this situation for the last 3 years plus now
Sunil Talwar: @sohil mahendru if you see our basic resource management, i have only one ward for it 'bad' look at the way we were mining precious iron ore via the reddy brothers and their like for the last so many years. un ashamed mining of natural resources and shipping them off to china for free. giving away krishna godavary basin gas for free to reliance....sick is the only word. these are only a few instances of bad politics which has lead to this sorry state
Sandeep Manudhane: Yes Sohil - non-veg food is extremely energy-intensive (even before it's consumed!). But that's the food of choice for many.
Gold-e Tuteja: Nice discussion... but I feel the RBI guv is in a catch 22 situation ... he'll be criticized either ways ... I myself feel that inflation will not b tamed by merely increasing the interest rates.... it has to b attacked from various angles... raising interest rate is not the only solution. All said n done RBI has always been ahead of the curve... they have gone wrong at times... But it's just the way of staring at the glass ... its either half full or half empty ;-)
Abhishek Jain: Well, Raising interest rates is not a very efficient tool to curb inflation, as our economy is not credit based such as USA, where you buy everything on credit. The major problem of India is food inflation and we don't buy vegetables taking loan from a bank, so how come raising interest rates solve the basic problem?? Then what is the solution? The solution is to approve FDI in sectors such as retail, as FDI are more permanent source of growth than FIIs. An FII can remove their money any time they want while an FDI is for long term. But Alas!! The politics!!! Raising interest rates just reduces some percentage points from our growth rate every time. Why China grows at 9-10% and we fell even below 8%? Lower interest rates and improve infrastructure to attract FDIs.
Ashish Andani: Inflation in this part of globe in pro growth and Demand side inflation rather than a supply side, which can only be tamed with taking measures on creating leverages on supply side both agri and non agri commodities..... RBI on the other hand is doing what it can, as they can sit idle in the country where ministers need reasons to kill babus..... on that side of the chair....
Rajesh Kumar: The basic idea is that if inflation is more than the rate of saving people will avoid saving and spend more and saving rate will come down. The major funding of government debt comes from public instead of institutionalized debt. Higher spending in consumptions is not good for any economy. The present day inflation is not based on demand and supply effect as despite the bumper crops and good monsoon inflation has not come down. Inflation can favour borrowers at the expense of savers – because inflation erodes the real value of existing debts- if real interest rates are negative. These are the reason RBI always tend to increase the rate to counter the inflation. I think Government should increase the Petrol prices say by Rs 50 and reduce the diesel prices by 20.00. The burden on petrol will not only tax on luxury (Big cars or Buffet Tax on Obama) but also someway reduce the automobile pollution. The Petrol users can be asked to avoid unnecessary petrol vehicle and to use the public transport. At the same type VAT on Diesel vehicle purchase should also be doubled or increased substantially which will reduce the freight and carriage charges which will necessarily reduce the price of essential commodities. Similarly to check the pollution we need a law that a particular type of color car of private vehicle should run run on a specific day. Say white run vehicle should not run on Sunday, Red on Monday, Green on Wednesday, etc..
Sunil Talwar: Don't run after cars. You will run out of steam and nothing will come out of it. Petrol or diesel price will not control inflation.
Abhishek Jain: Well Petroleum prices should be deregulated to have better market driven pricing system. However inflation does not get affected mostly by petrol prices (Diesel prices affects transportation cost though). The commodity trading of agri products plays major role in hiking their prices. It's all virtual price increase, as anyone can see in the recent rise in gold prices. The exchange trading of Agri products should be banned, to control inflation till we have enough tools to control it...
Sunil Talwar: I will not agree to ban e trading of agri commodities. Look around u there is a tighter noose choking the agri market, the Mandi. Remove all politicians who sit as mandi chiefs and then see how these markets behave. At the end it is all about good money chasing bad demand
Prateek Patel: Nice One Sir, our Central Bank is acting Capitalistic..!!! But, it will again fail because our economy's DNA(which is socialistic indeed) will not let it happen..!!!
Abhishek Jain: Well actually raising interest rates cannot be considered as capitalistic approach, as Capitalism works on 'Laissez faire' i.e. no intervention of Govt., while our Govt. controls everything. For ex. The Petrol pricing, in which we rank among one of the most expensive countries, due to excessive duties and surcharge on that. However the austerity approach of RBI saved our banks from investing in low rated debts, thus we were largely unaffected by Euro debt crisis. But raising interest rates to curb inflation, is not a good or at least permanent way, it is slowing our growth.
Ram Gupta: GE Sir, Government is playing an opposite role by increasing petrol prices, which will definitely, nullify the RBI move.......
Rajesh Kumar: It is a good idea that future trading on food & agricultural items should be banned from comex . Since the start of comex the food items have never come down despite bumper crops
Abhishek Jain: @Rajesh Kumar, I agree with you, because the excess food grain is rotting in the inefficient storage and the public has to face the inflationary prices due to the Future trading of Agri products. Thus the Commodity Trading of Agri and Food product should be banned for a certain period of time till we have better tools to fight inflation than interest rates.
Rima Chaturvedi: in some areas autonomous behaviour of institutions is quite important...
Mustafa Jaorawala: this is an institution where the entire economy vis a vis the governance is done....so its important to have fin.min.to control the inflows and outflows of the revenues and the rates else it wud be a complete haywire situaion..where inflation has to be calculated on a daily basis...
Sumat Singhal: sir i reserve my opinion, first lowering interest rate may hinders economic growth and RBI is considering priority of growth over inflation and second even on behalf of govt it is not clear that it really wants to control inflation although RBI is autonomous and independent and governor D subbarao has also made it clear.
Jonathan Livington Seagull: The FM has always maintained RBI had an autonomous role, though in concurrence with FM & The Planning Commission for the fiscal policies. Turkey's case is a stray case altogether where Islamic Laws in relation to Interest were also considered. In the case of RBI only RRR etc can not curb the nation's Inflation; the other factors like Demand Supply, Prices of commodities like Oil, Budget Deficit, Fiscal Deficit all account to Inflation.
Ali Mn: Infact if you watch it closely, the hike has more to do with feeding the interests of the big banks. The logic is simple; the rates get higher so that govt. bonds are issued at higher interest rates and who are the buyers..guess..yeh...banks and financial institutions..so they make more money. Not this hiking interest rate has other side too. It not only absorbs money but on th other hand also gives bank a chance to increase the floating rates on the loans given to borrowers. Also, as the bank increases its portfolio of RRR, it can also lend at an increased amount to the public. And here the spiral generates. Now the bank has more money to lend as compared to before hiking the rates. Banks have dual advantage of the hike i.e. increased lending power - one from the increased portfolio of RRR and other from the increased deposits from the people.
Was a wonderful debate, wasn't it!
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