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Riksbank Governor Chat transcript

By Amol Agrawal

I had pointed to a Riksbank Dep Governor chatting on the web. The transcript is here:

Here are some intereting Qs and some equally interesting answers:

What are you going to do this summer? Henrik

Reply: I am going to take a few weeks’ holiday. I look forward to being able to read something other than all the work documents I usually read.

Why make a repo rate forecast when you change it all the time? Gunnar

Reply: We use the repo rate path to explain our thinking with regard to monetary policy in the slightly longer term. But the path is a forecast, not a promise. When the conditions for the economy change, the forecasts also change, including those for the repo rate. 

:-)

PS.

She is 62 years, so not really a young Dep Governor as some would expect.

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