In the Australian Financial Review over the weekend (for the Monday edition), an interview with Malcolm Edey

  • Edey retired from the Reserve Bank of Australia last week
  • His final 7 years at the bank were as Assistant Governor responsible for the financial system

Edey says:

  • "I think the efforts to squeeze more stimulus out of things like negative interest rates and bond-buying activities are not achieving very much. And some of it is probably counter-productive. "These measures have gone about as far as they can go."

Full piece is here, may be gated