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Europe’s banking sector is already weaker than it looks, since there is an uncompetitive portion of banks that needs to be merged or closed.
The combination of a banking sector squeeze with a paralyzed or ineffective lender of last resort is a potentially very dangerous combination.
Finally, Europe’s property-market and banking problems heighten the danger of a Japanese scenario.
He responded to PAS’s challenge by building up Islamic universities, banking systems, and bureaucracy, but he opposed the expansion of Sharia law, drawing a line between modernist and conservative strands of Islam.
The second big challenge that the IMF identifies – excess capacity in the eurozone banking system, and the related problem of non-performing loans – is also, in principle, solvable.
Without question, the Fed has greatly helped the European banking system to stay afloat.
Economic freedoms that transformed Russia for good and ill brought despair to laboratories and research institutes as budgets were slashed and bright young scientists fled abroad while others (most famously the mathematician turned oligarch Boris Berezovsky) moved into banking and other businesses.
Unlike Mexico, Brazil has extremely high real interest rates and pervasive banking problems -- and this even before the issue of whether or not the real is overvalued is factored into the picture.
Of course, such rates put strains on the banking system, which now abound.
The deregulation and rapid expansion of banking in the US in the early years of the twentieth century was in many ways a response to the Populist movement, backed by small and medium-sized farmers who found themselves falling behind the growing numbers of industrial workers, and demanded easier credit.
One suspects that he would have urged European policymakers to dispense with their silly fixation on a financial transactions tax and instead repair their broken banking systems and use all monetary and fiscal means at their disposal to jump-start economic growth.
Consider the Basel III international banking standards.
Nowadays, the banking industry shapes decision-making worldwide, exemplified in its enduring right to unlimited speculation and its capacity to capture profits that are unmatched by any other industry, especially for its senior managers, while exposing the world to overwhelming risk.
For example, in Kenya, a private company developed a mobile-payments system that allows users to transfer money using cell phones, effectively creating a banking system much more quickly than the government could have done.
There has been pressure to impose targeted sanctions aimed at impeding the financial operations of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which holds a virtual monopoly over strategic industries such as banking, defense and construction.
The subsequent burst of the housing bubble in the United States caused banks to fail, because banking had gone global and the big banks held one another’s bad loans.
Those who believe that all was fine with the pre-crisis economy except for banks making crazy loans are convinced that preventing such crises in the future requires only banking reform.
But their horizon of reform is similarly confined to the banking sector, and they rarely ask what caused the banks to behave so badly.
The radical case is that the pre-crisis economy crashed not because of preventable mistakes in banking, but because money had become the sole arbiter of value.
Hildebrand was not just any central banker: he stood out for his independence, not only from political authority, but also from the banking sector.
The banking industry was not sparing in its criticism.
As the crisis hit, stronger banking systems and effective macroeconomic policies – including fiscal responsibility and low public debt, exchange-rate flexibility, and a large accumulation of international reserves – allowed Latin American countries to implement unprecedented countercyclical policies.
Such a well-educated and mobile population is essential to Cyprus’s business model, in which high-value accountancy, banking, and legal services compensate for the country’s lack of agriculture and heavy industry.
It is Europe’s banking system, not Cyprus’s business model, that is most in need of reform.
But, instead of addressing these defects, the EU is moving toward a banking union, in which member countries’ credit risks are pooled via a single deposit-insurance system, supervisory mechanism, and bank-resolution mechanism.
The result will be a more uniform – and more fragile – banking system.
During the “lost decade” of the Latin American debt crisis in the 1980s, Brazil and Mexico had a significant and promising growth pickup in 1984-1985 – before serious problems in the banking sector, an unresolved external debt overhang, and several ill-advised domestic policy initiatives cut those recoveries short.
Since its 1992 banking crisis, Japan has suffered several false starts.
The stress tests conducted by the US Treasury last year suggested that the banking sector had re-attained sufficient capital.
That move marks a shift in the character of the global financial crisis, away from concern with banking problems and toward a focus on the world’s dysfunctional exchange-rate system – or, rather, its current lack of one.
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