Tomop up excess liquidity, China'scentralbankhasraisedcommercialBanks' reserve requirement ratiofourtimes and raised benchmarkinterest ratestwice since the beginningofthis year.
But if this trend in private bank money creation continues, it does augur for higher rates of monetary inflation, especially, as Chairman Bernanke suggested at Jackson Hole in August, if aided and embedded by a reduction in the rate of interest the Federal Reserve pays banks on those excess reserves.
Every time the Federal Reserve (and the central banks before it) created an excessof money, either by keeping interest rates too low or by injecting liquidity into banks, prices inflated.