{"id":2156,"date":"2017-06-04T20:35:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/?post_type=newsletter&#038;p=2156"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:43:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:43:05","slug":"guatemala-q1-2017","status":"publish","type":"newsletter","link":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/report\/guatemala-q1-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Monetary Intervention Plus Monetary Expansion Equals Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Contents<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Economic sentiment<\/li>\n<li>Monetary aggregates<\/li>\n<li>Inflation<\/li>\n<li>Consumer Price Index (CPI)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Credit<\/li>\n<li>National budget<\/li>\n<li>Central Bank of Guatemala<\/li>\n<li>Balance of trade and current account analysis<\/li>\n<li>Exchange rate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Author<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Estefan\u00eda Luj\u00e1n Padilla<\/strong><br \/>BA in Economics with a minor in Finance from the Universidad Francisco Marroqu\u00edn. She has attended to summer seminars from the Instituto Juan de Mariana<em>\u00a0<\/em>and from the Institute for Humane Studies.\u00a0\n<p>At Universidad Francisco Marroqu\u00edn, she is a teaching assistant of courses from Henry Hazlitt Center as well as from the School of Economics, where she is also the Directors Assistant of Economics.<a href=\"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/guatemala-2017q1-ufm-market-trends.pdf\">Guatemala 2017Q1 UFM Market Trends<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the aim of stimulating and maintaining the economy \u201ccompetitive,\u201d the Bank of Guatemala has increased the monetary base at a faster rate without any response from the economic agents, since growth in monetary aggregates continues to be low and decelerating. This is not the only hopeless intervention, as the Bank of Guatemala also decided to intervene to counter the alleged excess supply of dollars, evidenced by the \u201coutrageous\u201d appreciation of the quetzal. This high level of intervention and the scant response from the broader economy are beginning to signal a deterioration of the integrity of the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":2159,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"anio":"2017","mes":"January-March ","id_estadisticas":"stat-guatemala-q1-2017","newsletter_link":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/guatemala-2017q1-ufm-market-trends.pdf","portada_informe":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/guatemala-q1-2017.png","subtitulo":"Guatemala Q1 2017 Report","footnotes":""},"tags":[163,12],"class_list":["post-2156","newsletter","type-newsletter","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-163","tag-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newsletter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}