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First, the domestic interest groups that benefit from low borrowing costs have become a barrier to their liberalization.
The best way to prepare is to limit the use of credit in boom times, prevent individuals and companies from borrowing too much, and set high capital requirements for all banks and other financial institutions.
Projected interest-rate hikes in the US are also boosting uncertainty in Latin America, where countries with large borrowing requirements are particularly vulnerable to disruptions in capital markets.
Why did the US not follow the more direct path of redistribution, of taxing or borrowing and spending on the anxious middle class?
During the last 20 years, economic growth has been based on rising asset prices and declining borrowing costs for consumers and companies.
Not coincidentally, this process coincided with an oil boom and massive external borrowing.
This approach, if overused, can amount to borrowing future demand; in that case, it is clearly unsustainable.
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a helpful report in July that spelled out some of the consequences of the 2013 confrontation over the debt ceiling – including how it pushed up the government’s borrowing costs and the negative impact this had on the economy.
Ancien régime France developed a similar pattern, borrowing in Amsterdam or Geneva in order to fight wars against Spain in the sixteenth and seventeen centuries, and against Britain in the eighteenth.
Part of the promise of the new push to European integration in the 1980’s was that it would make borrowing easier.
As Putin declared last year, the Soviet Union’s collapse dealt a “devastating blow” to Russia’s “cultural and spiritual codes,” and subsequent “attempts to civilize Russia from abroad” amounted to “primitive borrowing.”
Another is that investors and corporate treasurers could become increasingly confident and aggressive in borrowing euros to convert into dollars and take advantage of higher US rates.
There have been worries for years about the global imbalances caused by America’s huge overseas borrowing.
To improve targeting to yield the largest possible reduction in poverty with the resources available, the IMF now expects all poor countries borrowing from the Fund to prepare comprehensive poverty reduction strategies.
It is indefensible for the IMF and other creditors to obstruct Somalia’s access to financing because of arrears on a debt incurred three decades ago as much through reckless lending as through irresponsible borrowing.
But Greece is not the only country struggling to repay its existing debt, much less dampen borrowing.
First, they can employ countercyclical macroprudential measures to dampen credit cycles and prevent excessive borrowing.
Fearing sovereign defaults, bond markets would charge governments punitive interest rates on their borrowing.
Short- and medium-term growth can be sustained for a while by substituting public and private debt for investment – that is, borrowing against future income and consumption.
The alternative is either a sovereign-debt crisis, followed by a destructive spike in borrowing costs, or a growing burden for subsequent generations of taxpayers.
Simply put, one cannot sustain current levels of consumption and entitlements without crowding out public-sector investment, unless one believes that the state’s borrowing power is unlimited, and that the intergenerational burden shift is unimportant.
There, borrowing costs for new loans shot higher than 40% when the financial crisis erupted.
The initial approach was to link policy improvements in the borrowing countries not only with help from international institutions, but also with additional lending from the banks – which seemed to defy the most elementary canons of sensible bank behavior.
Instead, America’s favorable borrowing terms attest to the power of misleading government accounting.
The country’s external deficit is exploding, and borrowing costs have spiked precisely as financing has become imperative.
Secondly, if a country invests more than it saves, it will need to borrow, and the counterpart to that borrowing is a trade deficit.
Tax cuts that America could ill afford turned a huge fiscal surplus into a massive deficit; rather than saving, America's government is borrowing, much of it from abroad.
The IMF is right: there is a real risk of global instability, but the underlying cause is massive US borrowing from abroad, which began under President Reagan.
I confess to being a member of a minority that thinks countries should do most of their borrowing in their own currency, especially if they peg their exchange rate.
Cheap land, cheap capital, and preferential treatment for state-owned enterprises weakens the competitiveness of private firms, which face high borrowing costs and often must rely on family and friends for financing.
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