We understand the effect our lifestyle choices have on the health outcomes we achieve, even if this knowledge does not motivate us to go to the gym.
In the financial world central banks and governments are continuously making “lifestyle” choices at the macro level in the form of monetary and fiscal policy. For more than a decade we have been living in a world awash in excess liquidity fuelled by low interest rates and low inflation. Highly accommodative monetary policy was a “lifestyle choice” for many advanced economies, to stimulate weak economies at a time when it was needed. However, in economic...