Monetary, fiscal policies: The equivalent of a two legged stool?

ON October 1, 2018, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) issued its rather long monetary policy statement (MPS). Empirical evidence has shown that ordinarily, the length of such a statement is inversely proportional to its importance or usefulness, and directly proportional to its confusion making capability. This was no exception.

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