"Denmark's fixed exchange rate policy will be continued after yesterday's referendum, " the bank said in a statement.
And now, just ten months after exchange rates were fixed and monetary policy was handed to the European Central Bank, is far too soon to pass judgment on the scheme, for good or ill.
These are policies which promise to pay out a supposedly fixed sum to the policy holder's inheritors when the customer eventually dies, with the payment coming from the investment proceeds of the person's monthly premiums.
BBC: Whole-of-life insurance: Why complaints are rising fast
If a country does not improve its fiscal policy, a fixed-rate system may simply store up trouble.
The stable monetary policy disciplined by fixed exchange rates also minimized the boom and bust business cycle, with its periodic sharp recessions hampering long term growth.
"At the root of the euro upheaval is a balance of payment crisis caused by the cumulative effects of a 13-year-old one-size-fits-all monetary policy and a fixed exchange rate for a collection of disparate countries in very different stages of economic and structural development, " he argues.
Much depended on the timing of the requests - in the case of Mr Healey's request, it was made at a "time when consultation had ceased and policy seemed to be fixed", it said, thereby reducing the need for "safe space" for advice.
Under fixed exchange rates, governments should tighten fiscal policy when money floods in, in order to dampen aggregate demand.
Nor can I buy the argument, made here by Joe Weisenthal, that the abandonment of gold equates to a new expression of faith by investors that central bankers and policy makers have more or less fixed our economic problems and that its better to be in stocks, not rocks.
FORBES: Gold Inches Up As Goldbugs Seek Reasons For Historic Rout
The turning point arrived in 1999 when the new telecom policy changed the licensing fees from a fixed amount that wireless companies had been struggling to pay to a revenue-sharing model.
In the case of a gold standard system, the policy target is to create a currency whose value is fixed to gold.
Household spending and business fixed investment advanced, and the housing sector has strengthened further, but fiscal policy is restraining economic growth.
In a change from previous policy, all four will be allowed to compete across the board, from fixed-line and mobile communications to business and data services.
Yet, all of these are symptoms of the current deficiencies of economic policy, says Tony Volpon, a Brazilian and the head of Emerging Markets Americas fixed income strategy at Nomura Securities overlooking the Hudson River here in New York.
The majority of these investments are in fixed income securities like government and corporate bonds and the remainder in equity securities, mortgage loans, policy loans and other investment securities.
FORBES: MetLife Eyes $50 Per Share If Investment Returns Pick Up
应用推荐