"They cannot run out of the which they create" ?????
The ECB Explains Why Central Banks Can't Go Bankrupt in a Footnote
This morning the European Central Bank published a research paper titled "Profit distribution and loss coverage rules for central banks."
The paper dryly outlines how central banks account for profits and losses, and how those profits and losses are distributed to the shareholders of those central banks—usually the state in which they are based.
The paper is useful though, for one very important point it makes. As the ECB engages on its expanded €80 billion per month asset purchase program, questions will arise over what would happen should the central bank make a loss on those purchases.
In talking about profitability of a central bank the ECB says in its paper that it is not necessary for a central bank to make money, as this is not a useful measure of the efficacy of the bank. While noting that profitability may be useful for a central bank's credibility, the paper makes the critical point that losses made by a central bank do not lead to the bank needing to be recapitalized, or the bank becoming insolvent.
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Russian energy minister says may meet
Saudi counterpart before Doha event
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Monday that he may meet his Saudi Arabian counterpart before a planned oil producers’ meeting in Doha on April 17. Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, will agree to freeze crude oil production levels only if Iran and other major producers do so, the kingdom’s deputy crown prince said in an interview with Bloomberg last week. “If there is such an opportunity, surely we will talk to our colleagues,” he said about a possible meeting with his Saudi Arabian colleague. Iran has said it will not join fellow OPEC and non-OPEC members in a plan to be discussed in Doha to freeze oil production to boost prices. Novak also said he hoped that a common position would prevail at the […]
