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From one policy mistake to another?

Governor Tiff Macklem’s hawkish comments this week, even as he presented a report warning of the risks of aggressive policy tightening, leave little doubt that the Bank of Canada is singularly focused on making up for keeping policy too loose for too long. But by lurching from one extreme to another, the Bank risks making an even more damaging policy mistake in the other direction.

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