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I would include social cohesion as part of the asset base: it is the one that is depreciated by excessive inequality.
The crucial missing pieces are a shift in the structure of accessible aggregate demand and restoration of those parts of the economy’s asset base that have been run down, implying the need for structural change and investment.
And the right way to prevent financial crises in the first place is to intervene in the financial markets to moderate swings in asset values and to head off recessions before they happen.
They note that, in general, debt levels and leverage rose during the decade preceding these crises, propelling increases in asset prices for a long time.
They cite the dangers of volatile capital inflows, commodity-price fluctuations, and local-currency appreciation, as well as the attendant risks of asset bubbles and inflation.
So the money won’t go where it’s needed, and much of it will wind up where it’s not wanted – causing further increases in asset and commodity prices, especially in emerging markets.
In both Europe and America, the free-market ideology that allowed asset bubbles to grow unfettered – markets always know best, so government must not intervene – now ties policymakers’ hands in designing effective responses to the crisis.
No private party would buy such an asset.
When the first “arrow” of Abenomics – a fiscal stimulus program – was launched nearly two years ago, asset markets' immediate response was positive.
Even more encouraging are developments in the labor market, which, unlike those in asset markets, reflect outcomes, not expectations.
Its logical destination was the country with the deepest financial markets, the US, where it raised asset prices to unsustainable heights.
Second, emerging countries must develop more effective macroeconomic frameworks, including better macro-prudential regulation and a broader monetary-policy framework that takes into account asset prices and financial-market stability.
And, of course, China could always curtail its purchases of US Treasuries, with serious consequences for financial asset prices.
The Liquidity PuzzleWe increasingly hear that “the world is awash with liquidity,” and that this justifies expecting asset prices to continue rising.
Indeed, the much-vaunted market for collateralized debt obligations, which divides risks into tranches and places the different risk levels in different places according to the willingness to accept them, has plausibly played a role in boosting asset prices.
He says that it merely reflects a feedback mechanism that is always present: any initial upward shock to asset prices strengthens the balance sheets of financial institutions, so in response they borrow more and bid up prices even more.
But if that is what the term “awash with liquidity” means, then its widespread use today is simply a reflection of the high asset prices that we already have.
A reluctance to prosecute war criminals is an asset that Balkan governments use in order to pacify their nationalist audience and, indeed, to avoid the thorny problems of a thoroughgoing reform.
Sanctions continue to be an option, but thus far they have not generated enough pressure to make the Kim regime give up what it regards as its key strategic asset.
But the most important role now lies clearly with the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mr Alan Greenspan; he is essential if and when a confidence crises hit asset markets; he is essential to keeping credit lines open and markets from freaking out.
The second plausible transmission mechanism is asset prices.
This is plausible in terms of a future decline in the dollar’s importance as a reserve asset and safe haven.
Within this department, official entities can exchange SDRs – the IMF’s own international reserve asset – for other currencies.
It stands to play an equally important role in driving the fight against inflation, asset bubbles, and deteriorating loan quality.
But, while the resulting surge in capital flows to emerging markets stimulated economic growth, it also inflated asset bubbles.
Indeed, the threat to withdraw QE is already having an enormous impact on emerging economies’ asset markets.
But the ECB’s policies also mean that it has no ammunition left to fight the next recession, which could be caused by a collapse of asset prices, starting with the price of long-term bonds.
A fall in US stock and bond prices, which are also out of line with past experience, could cause European asset prices to decline in sympathy.
Although the US economy is now performing very well, the excessive level of asset prices – the result of a decade of near-zero interest rates – poses a threat to stability.
The 2008 recession was triggered by a financial crisis that erupted after the collapse of a credit-fueled asset bubble decimated the housing market.
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