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As time passes, deficits accumulate.
As deficits accumulate, the cost of servicing the net international asset position grows.
As the risks accumulate, it is not inconceivable that Germany might conclude that, despite the potential impact on its exchange rate, it would be better off returning to the Deutsche Mark.
China’s Dollar ProblemCAMBRIDGE – When will China finally realize that it cannot accumulate dollars forever?It already has more than $2 trillion.
However, in later periods the objective was to avoid real exchange-rate appreciation, and, at the same time, to accumulate international reserves and strengthen credibility.
Managing a floating rate has also allowed Latin American countries to accumulate a significant level of international reserves.
Countries with few “letters” lack incentives to accumulate more letters, because they cannot do much with any additional one: you would not want a TV remote control if you didn’t have a TV, and you would not want a TV broadcasting company if your potential customers lacked electricity.
Mercury from the smokestacks will accumulate in the marine life, permanently contaminating the food supply of hundreds of thousands of people and vulnerable wildlife.
That might be true, but stronger domestic demand would lead to higher imports, which would need to be paid for with higher export revenues, because the country cannot afford to accumulate more foreign debt.
It induces us to save, accumulate, and invest by promising us safe and liquid investments even in extraordinary times.
My recent study with Jacopo Carmassi, Time to Set Banking Regulation Right, shows that by permitting excessive leverage and risk-taking by large international banks – in some cases allowing banks to accumulate total liabilities up to 40, or even 50, times their equity capital – the Basel banking rules not only enabled, but, ironically, intensified the crisis.
Officials in important emerging-market economies chose to accumulate Treasury securities, because US yields, albeit low, were higher than in other advanced economies.
For surplus countries that want to accumulate reserves, it would reduce exchange-rate risk.
The real danger is that adjustment would take place even later, with imbalances left to accumulate for a longer period of time.
And economist Michael Pettis cautions that China’s reliance on policy stimulus to kick-start the economy whenever it stalls will merely cause macroeconomic vulnerabilities to accumulate.
In order to spur growth and employment, these economies must start paying closer attention to the kind of debt they accumulate.
Long-term growth is determined by the ability to accumulate technological and institutional capacities and the quality of national policies.
Commercial banks found it advantageous to accumulate weaker countries’ bonds to earn a few extra basis points, which caused interest rates to converge across the eurozone.
If, in a world of scarce jobs, those with political connections get them, and if, in a world of limited wealth, government officials accumulate masses of money, there will be justifiable outrage at such inequities – and at the perpetrators of these “crimes.”
But a country’s economic development ultimately depends on its ability to accumulate capital and allocate it efficiently.
This gives China the unprecedented – for a large trading country – ability to accumulate foreign-exchange reserves (now approaching $3 trillion).
After all, central banks seeking to accumulate foreign-currency reserves will have alternatives to acquiring dollars, so foreigners won’t give America so much rope with which to hang itself.
After all, the program would boost significantly the interest-rate spread between Maastricht-compliant debt and the debt that remains in the member states’ hands (which they previously were not permitted to accumulate).
Work-and-retire or invest-and-retire visas, for example, would encourage expats to save and accumulate pension funds – thereby enabling them to contribute even more significantly to the region’s rapid economic growth.
And symptoms accumulate: sight is gradually lost, genital lesions appear around puberty (sometimes increasing risk of HIV), and skin condition declines as millions of microscopic worms become intolerably itchy.
Although it must have been sorely tempted, Italy did not accumulate Target deficits.
Thus, China will continue to accumulate large foreign-exchange reserves this year.
But what he really intends to do is accumulate even more debt.
Increasing wealth taxes now, as Piketty proposes, would strike many people as unfair, because it would amount to imposing a retroactive levy on the work carried out to accumulate that wealth in the past – a change to the rules of the game, and its outcome, after the game is over.
Older people who worked hard to accumulate wealth over the course of their lifetime would be taxed on their frugality to benefit people who didn’t even try to save.
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