A Discussion On Monetary Levers

Why access to credit rather than interest rates should be the primary tool of monetary policy.

Chris Leeson
16 min readSep 2, 2021

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For policy makers to minimize the human misery from economic booms and busts it’s important they have the right tools for the job. For the better part of a century interest rates have gone unchallenged as the primary monetary tool for Central Bankers…

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Chris Leeson

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