The Bank of Japan’s Policy Board meets on Thursday and will almost certainly forecast that inflation will remain well below the new informal target of 1% until at least 2012. This does not necessarily mean, as many will assume, that there are no circumstances under which interest rates could be raised from near-zero over this period, or other forms of policy stimulus withdrawn. But in our view, monetary policy will have to remain ultra-loose for the foreseeable future.
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