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Saunders chose between 25bp and 50bp - not 75bp

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  • "The choice at the last policy meeting was between 25 and 50. I can't talk for other Committee members but that was the choice for me."
  • "The individual accountability of individual MPC members is very important. When we vote the same way, it's because we agree rather than sort of being forced into a consensus. And if members disagree on the policy outlook, they vote accordingly. I think that process of individual accountability and separate voting allows uncertainties and diverging views on the economic outlook to be brought to the surface and debated more openly than if there was an attempt to force into a consensus."
  • "On steering by r*... you can't use r* as a fine tuning policy because of uncertainties around it but I'm pretty sure the policy stance over the past year has been accomodative and my preference has been to get relatively quickly back to something more like neutral. As you get into a range of where neutral rate might be, you can't lean so much on r* as an estimate of where a policy choice should be."

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