Arguably no central banker in the world has been bolder and more aggressive about quantitative easing than Japan's Haruhiko Kuroda.
Yet his $700 billion in bond purchases every month have failed to generate the 2 percent inflation targeted by the Bank of Japan: New figures released Friday showed that core consumer price inflation had once again flattened to zero in February.
This raises the obvious question: Has monetary policy become ineffective?
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