Balance
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With the housing collapse lowering spending, the Fed, in an effort to ward off recession and help banks with fragile
balance
sheets, has been cutting interest rates since the fall of 2007.
Throughout the world, there may be some similar effects, to the extent that foreign banks also hold bad US mortgages on their
balance
sheets, or in the worst case, if a general financial crisis takes hold.
This eventual need to reduce the monetary base is an implicit claim on a central bank’s assets; thus, the increase is rightly considered a liability on its
balance
sheet.
If, however, a permanent increase in the monetary base is transferred to the government as seigniorage revenue, it can use the windfall to fund tax cuts or increase spending without affecting its
balance
sheets.
Both Darling and Osborne faced a
balance
of risks in the spring of 2010.
One consequence of all of this is that the government can no longer
balance
its books and has started to discuss spending cuts and new taxes, in particular a sales tax.
Germany already faces large financial risks, owing to the ECB’s
balance
sheet and the Target2 balances at the Bundesbank that are generated by international flows of deposits to German commercial banks.
Budget
balance
in 2002 is well within reach.
But whether Europe as a whole avoids lost decades of economic growth still hangs in the balance, and depends on whether southern European governments can rapidly restore competitiveness.
Reducing imports helps the
balance
of payments.
A lower price level would also increase the real value of business debt, weakening
balance
sheets and thus making it harder for companies to get additional credit.
In 1991, America forged the most formidable international coalition since World War II, and led it in a fully legitimate war aimed at restoring regional
balance
after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait.
In coming decades, a strong bilateral partnership will prove vital in managing the rise of China and promoting an Asian
balance
of power that is favorable to India, the United States, and Asia as a whole.
A similar compromise could also be reached for the eurozone’s financial framework, and in particular the treatment of sovereign risk on banks’
balance
sheets.
There is always a delicate balance, to be sure, between commonly held views and individual liberties.
Second, let us hope that the Fed, guided by the steady hand of its new chair, Jerome “Jay” Powell, will continue or even accelerate its monetary-policy normalization, both by raising its benchmark federal funds rate, and by shrinking its engorged
balance
sheet.
Seventh, let us hope that new policies targeting information and communication technology (ICT) strike the right
balance
among all stakeholders’ competing and legitimate concerns.
Here, I predict that achieving an appropriate policy
balance
will take years.
But their success, so urgently needed to save the region from the politics of Doomsday, will have to wait for a new US administration to inject into them the necessary
balance
of realism and idealism, military power tempered by a genuine commitment to diplomacy.
This large, steady fall in the country’s trade surplus makes the Chinese government hesitant to allow the RMB to appreciate significantly, for fear of the lagged impact on the trade
balance.
The PBC knows that rapid deterioration in America’s fiscal position and continual worsening in its external
balance
may create an irresistible temptation for the US to inflate away its debt burden.
The Chinese government must, therefore, strike a
balance
between protecting China’s export sector and preserving its national welfare.
At the same time, the effect of currency appreciation on the trade
balance
should not be exaggerated.
A strengthening dollar would worsen the US trade balance, but a weakening dollar could cause panic in capital markets, which might push up risk premia on dollar-denominated assets, including US government securities, in turn leading to an economic slowdown and a further weakening of the dollar.
But any reforms they might attempt would necessarily threaten powerful entrenched interests, and thus destabilize the existing
balance
of power.
This is a difficult
balance
to achieve, and, without pressure from the markets, I am unsure how it will play out.
Smart politicians understood that the
balance
of political costs and benefits had shifted dramatically, and they changed gears fast.
Moreover, the currency depreciation in the wake of the Bank of Japan’s efforts to increase the annual inflation rate to 2% is expected to benefit exporters, though a substantial effect on the trade
balance
is yet to be seen, probably owing to higher import costs.
The enormous investments launched in China’s interior as part of the government’s stimulus program following the 2008 global financial crisis have now become a burden and are increasingly showing up as bad debt on the
balance
sheets of the country’s banks.
This history accounts for the type of conservatism practiced by the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian-Social Union (CSU), who focus on moderation and balance, preservation and innovation, and on commanding Germany's political center.
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