This does not equate to a desire to eliminate all risk. In fact, risk-taking is, to a point, good. We want it to occur. That is how society advances. A problem right now, arguably, is that there is not enough genuine entrepreneurial risk occurring – judging by the low levels of private capital spending in many advanced countries.
What is perhaps especially interesting for the discussion generated during this conference is that, both when monetary policy becomes more restrictive and when it becomes more expansionary, central banks always continue to claim that they do not contribute to increasing inequality! However, to a certain degree we may find that this claim is to some extent supported by literature.