Balance
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But the best feasible target would be a tiny symbolic surplus for the primary
balance
(which excludes interest payments on debt) this year, and a gradual increase thereafter to a realistic 1.5-2% of GDP.
The news from Greece these days has been dominated by the announcement that the government achieved a primary budget surplus (the fiscal
balance
minus debt service) in 2013.
Some of these funds were aimed to improve countries’ fiscal
balance.
But market fundamentalism also inspired dangerous intellectual fallacies: that financial markets are always rational and efficient; that central banks must simply target inflation and not concern themselves with financial stability and unemployment; that the only legitimate role of fiscal policy is to
balance
budgets, not stabilize economic growth.
The leading Asian countries, including Ban’s South Korea, have long favored a
balance
of diplomatic approaches and economic incentives as the way to solve complex challenges.
North Korea’s nuclear weapons program threatens to upset that balance, by giving its regime the capacity, through the long-range ballistic missiles it is testing, to strike the West Coast of the US, thereby raising a new version of an old question: would the US risk Los Angeles to protect Seoul?
The government will need to find the right
balance
between government interests and individual rights, between economic growth and environmental stewardship, and between the role of markets and that of the state.
Of course it must continuously
balance
the two, but both have equal weight.
Banks that failed the stress test and didn’t take the result seriously are partly to blame, but so, too, are regulators who did not sufficiently hold the banks’ feet to the fire to improve their
balance
sheets, and who may have applied stress tests that were too weak to detect financial frailty.
In fact, Iran’s current government is attempting to overthrow a
balance
of power that has endured for some 1,400 years – and Saudi Arabia, as the cradle of the Muslim world, will not allow it.
To strike the right
balance
with TB, the international community must recommit to R&D initiatives by showing the financial leadership agreed upon in September.
His mandate was to recast the relationship in two important ways: render its terms more amenable to economic growth and job creation; and restore
balance
and dignity to the treatment of Greece by its European partners and the International Monetary Fund.
But the structure of China’s national
balance
sheet suggests that it still has plenty of room to mitigate the risks that escalating debt might bring.
(Part of the difference has ended up on the European Central Bank’s (ECB)
balance
sheet, but this cannot be a permanent solution.)
Moreover, national banking systems can now separate more easily, because the peripheral countries’ current accounts have already achieved a rough balance, with all but Greece expected to record a small external surplus in 2014.
But, with the cash coming from short-term repos making up much of core financial firms’
balance
sheets, tremors in financial markets could hit them hard, drying up repo financing for a few, as occurred in 2008.
And because the government’s
balance
sheet is still strong enough to bail out unviable financial firms, it can address any emerging sources of stress in that crucial sector.
In 1999, a core inflation rate of around 2%, combined with unemployment below 5%, justified a federal funds rate of 5% (and a “normal”
balance
sheet).
Today, the Federal Reserve has kept its benchmark rate below 1.5% – 350 basis points lower than in 1999 – and has postponed any reduction in its bloated
balance
sheet.
The alternative is to embrace a “transfer union” that ensures a better
balance
between solidarity and responsibility.
This means not only ensuring that the international trade regime can survive without the US, but also developing a military capability that can increase the EU’s geopolitical credibility and shift the global
balance
of power.
To do the same thing with bank debt could pull hitherto sound economies into the abyss, because bank’s
balance
sheets are much larger than the volume of government debt.
Spanish banks have 7% equity capital on average on their
balance
sheets.
And, even if the banks’ private depositors, whose claims are 39% of the aggregate
balance
sheet, were excluded, the debt-equity swap necessary to compensate for a loss of up to 100% of the equity would be less than 12% of the creditors’ investment volume.
They will need to strike a better
balance
between openness and protection, innovation and regulation; and they will need to do so without falling into a regressive populist trap.
Recent scientific insights have made us better equipped than ever to strike that
balance.
The drop from $120 per barrel in 2014 to under $35 today is the result of a 2% change (roughly two million barrels a day) in the supply-demand
balance.
We need our central bankers to make complex decisions and to be able to
balance
potentially conflicting objectives.
This leaves only the financial regulator or the central bank, which can use macroprudential tools – such as loan-to-value and debt-to-income ratios on new mortgage lending – to limit the deterioration of banks’
balance
sheets during boom times.
For them, the US is above all the strategic counterweight needed to
balance
China.
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