BIS steps up pressure to end financial sector support
Emergency measures brought in during the crisis are now doing more harm than good, annual report says
"Emergency-room treatment" doled out by central banks to save their economies and financial sectors during the crisis is now posing a real threat to the recovery, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) warned today.
The bank argued that stimulus spending has reached its limits "in a number of countries", and called for immediate deficit-cutting measures. It added that keeping interest rates
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