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These countries have found themselves on the receiving end not only of a correction in commodity prices and equities, but also of a brutal re-pricing of currencies and both local- and foreign-currency fixed-income assets.
The consequences – sharp capital-flow reversals that are now hitting all risky emerging-market assets – have not been pretty.
Whether the correction in risky assets is temporary or the start of a bear market will depend on several factors.
As this debt increases, the value of banks’ assets falls.
This might stimulate real growth through several channels: by reducing lending rates, by raising the nominal value of public and private assets, and by weakening the euro against the dollar and other currencies.
If we allow it simply to happen on its own, many jurisdictions will be stuck with pipelines to nowhere, half-built mega-mines, and stranded assets that weaken the economy and contribute to political polarization and social unrest.
Moreover, there is no perceived “re-denomination” risk affecting French assets, given markets’ confidence that France will retain the euro.
As a result, markets were deregulated, making it easier to trade assets that were perceived to be safe, but were in fact not.
China started to buy European Union governments’ bonds, and a high-profile Chinese team even went to Greece to buy under-priced real assets.
Because all the derivatives were based on the same assets, if anything happened to those assets, all the banks holding the debt would find themselves in the same soup.
What made the spread of derivatives possible was the ease with which the volume of debt for a given set of real assets could be expanded.
Chinese savings flowed not into creating new assets, but into financial speculation and consumer binges.
China’s retirement system has only about $430 billion of assets under management (national and local government social security and private-sector pensions).
And Russia has plenty of clout, employing its considerable diplomatic assets to affect the negotiations with Iran, while using weapons supplies to pursue its interests in troubled countries, from Syria to Egypt.
This means that the central government’s role should be to provide more advanced security assets such as fixed or rotary air support, intelligence, and logistical and communications support.
Some have actively encouraged markets to take the prices of many financial assets to levels no longer warranted by fundamentals.
As befits a former KGB officer, Putin also believes that the Russian state has “ultimate ownership rights” to its citizens’ private assets not just in Russia, but also abroad.
With no access to Libyan assets frozen abroad, it frequently paid salaries weeks in arrears.
Others – especially managers of financial assets – are becoming increasingly convinced that economists don’t know very much, and that what they do know is of no use to traders like themselves.
As a result, holders of dollar-denominated assets should be looking forward to two alternative scenarios.
In neither scenario does it make sense to hold huge amounts of dollar-denominated assets today.
Therefore, foreign speculators should, any day now, dump their dollar-denominated assets onto the market, and so bring about the dollar decline that they so fear.
They continue to hold very large positions in dollar-denominated assets, which they would not do if they thought the US faced a choice between a cheap dollar and a deep depression.
The rise of the “sharing economy,” in which assets – such as a car, a parking space, or a spare bedroom – are shared within communities, not only generates reciprocal goodwill, but also blurs the distinction between buyer and seller.
In response to heightened sensitivity to risk and unanticipated losses on their emerging-market assets, investors have become more discriminating, differentiating among countries and sectors.
Stronger-than-expected growth could trigger an increase in long-term US interest rates, encouraging investors to shift more of their holdings from emerging market assets to US assets.
Stronger interest by institutional investors in emerging-market assets should also boost future capital flows.
As part of long-term portfolio-diversification strategies, many large institutional investors have set targets for the share of their funds in emerging-market assets.
When retail investors sold off their holdings of such assets during the summer of 2013, institutional investors kept buying.
If a homeowner stops making mortgage payments, the creditor can take the property but cannot take other assets or a fraction of wages.
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