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The politics of this approach will be difficult, particularly in the rich countries; but, structured properly, concerted structural reform could help to restore growth, which would feed back into healthier budgets, more jobs, better balance sheets, and less financial risk.
If asset-price bubbles develop, balance sheets may look sound individually, but the entire network of interlinked asset-liability structures will become increasingly dependent on overvalued collateral, and thus vulnerable to financial contagion.
Those tools include caps, linked to borrowers’ characteristics, on loan-to-value ratios; direct limits on currency and maturity mismatches in financial institutions’ balance sheets; limits on their balance sheets’ interconnectedness; and minimum reserve requirements for specific financial instruments.
Only when a country invests less in fixed assets than the amount that it saves will the “surplus savings” show up in the trade balance.
Savings could remain high, even as current consumption grows slowly, while the trade balance would be held in check by higher demand for imported capital goods.
High domestic investment may for the time being prevent “surplus savings” from creating too much upward pressure on the external balance, but, given trends in China’s terms of trade, growth without an increase in domestic consumption is unsustainable over the long run.
Another factor working against RMB depreciation is that deterioration in China’s balance of payments may not improve China's international competitiveness.
The injection of government funds would be much less problematic if it were applied to the equity rather than the balance sheet.
Rebuilding the depleted balance sheets of the banking system is the right way to go.
Thanks in part to research by Reinhart and Rogoff, we know that excessive leverage is unsustainable, and that restoring balance takes time.
No one believes that fiscal balance is the whole growth model anywhere.
One is that some policymakers think that fiscal balance really is the main pillar in a growth strategy: Deleverage quickly and get on with it.
Similarly, if fiscal stimulus has a muted effect because the recipients of the income are saving to restore damaged household balance sheets, it is not clear we want to discount the accelerated deleveraging benefit, even if it shows up in domestic demand only later.
Consider the competing views within this group on democracy, transparency, the proper economic role of government, new rules of the road for financial markets and trade, and how best to ensure that the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank fairly reflect today’s global balance of power.
The EU side, for its part, had to address the problem of how to balance fairness of treatment between old and new eurozone members with ensuring a smooth enlargement.
Whether Shaikh can balance the IMF’s demands with ordinary people’s needs will not only determine the Pakistani economy’s direction, but will also have an enormous impact on how Pakistan and its citizens view the world.
Germany, meanwhile, must address its demographic challenges, in particular by preparing German society for increased immigration, and promote the transition to an inclusive growth model based on improved demand and a better balance of saving and investment.
How is it that the Fed’s balance sheet can expand so dramatically, potentially committing large sums of taxpayer dollars, without Congress having a purchase on its decisions, except well after the event?
One only has to recall recent US economic history to confirm the insight of the Italian/Swedish model – and to see the absurdity of claims that Republicans always aim to balance the budget while Democrats always try to spend beyond the country’s means.
These are highly leveraged businesses, typically funding their balance sheets with no more than 5% equity (and thus 95% debt).
Members of this generation sought a strong Arab leadership that would create a balance of power with Israel.
In fact, the current crisis has even put Japan, which has spent nearly two decades in the doldrums, in a position of relative strength, given its large currency reserves and the clean-up of its major banks’ balance sheets.
Few parts of Asia are structurally exposed to the credit implosion, and the balance sheets of Asian banks and companies are on the whole cleaner than their counterparts elsewhere.
With households focused on repairing severely damaged balance sheets, inflation-adjusted private consumption has expanded at an anemic 0.5% average annual rate over the past four years.
To be sure, the US Federal Reserve has moved away from monetary expansion since late 2013, when it began progressively reducing and ultimately halting bond purchases and shrinking its balance sheet.
Indeed, because Brazilian corporates have borrowed extensively in dollars (a consequence of sky-high local interest rates), it could well be that an appreciating currency is expansionary in the short-run: companies can clean up their balance sheets without having to shed workers or curtail investment.
Moreover, while research shows a clear link between a company’s gender balance and its financial health, women occupy fewer than 20% of governing board seats in the world’s largest companies.
Rather than open a checking account – and maintain the required minimum balance of $1,000 – I did what Japanese did: carry large amounts of yen and pay for everything in cash.
Moreover, Japan’s trade balance is now in deficit, and, rather than boosting exports, as intended, QE in Japan has led some Asian countries to depreciate their own currencies.
Many European banks’ balance sheets are now as contaminated as those of American banks, and no one is sure who is holding – or hiding – the junk, and how to value it.
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