On the other hand, monetarytargetingis not even an alternative forChinabecause of the breakdownof the relationship betweenmonetaryaggregatesandinflation.
The Dow sunk one more time, all the way to 770 in 1982, when the Federal Reserve began targeting the price of gold in monetary policy and the big Reagan tax cuts started to phase in.
Labour's Chris Leslie warned that there might be circumstances under which the aims of the Financial Policy Committee, which primarily focuses on financial stability, clashed with those of the Monetary Policy Committee, which mainly deals with inflation-targeting, but is also obliged to take growth into account when making decisions.