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Despite near-zero borrowing costs, the fiscal deficit is running at nearly 7% of GDP, and government debt exceeds 230% of GDP.
Their finance ministers, while euphoric at their countries’ record-low borrowing costs, must have understood that it might not last.
So even those who have been model citizens, borrowing prudently and maintaining their homes, now find that markets have driven down the value of their homes beyond their worst nightmares.
Borrowing from the IMF may be humiliating for government officials.
And what, really, is so humiliating about borrowing from your own citizens?
First, the spread between banks’ borrowing rate and the zero-risk rate has been climbing since July.
It was, in fact, the authorities’ clampdown on margin borrowing, together with a loss in confidence as global markets declined, that is thought to have triggered the market meltdown.
China used its excess savings to buy US Treasury bonds, which drove down world interest rates and enabled cheap borrowing, permitting America to run a vast current-account deficit.
For example, firms may use earnings held abroad as collateral to take on more debt and incur higher borrowing costs at home.
Moreover, multilateral development banks could leverage their equity by borrowing in capital markets.
So long as a borrowing country is stable and attractive, a major reversal due to the current account balance will not be forced by the market.
The Eurozone’s Delayed ReckoningNEW YORK – The risks facing the eurozone have been reduced since the summer, when a Greek exit looked imminent and borrowing costs for Spain and Italy reached new and unsustainable heights.
When the market tightened in 2011, many projects’ prospects diminished, spurring LGFVs to seek credit in the shadow banking sector, which has caused their borrowing costs to rise and introduced new market-based challenges to the reform process.
In the inflation-plagued 1970s and 1980s, when investors’ demand for inflation-risk premia pushed up long-term borrowing costs, larger deficits tended to boost long-term interest rates further, while smaller deficits reduced them.
Moreover, long-term borrowing costs are at historic lows, just as they have been throughout the last five years.
At a time of low borrowing costs and little to no inflation (or even deflation), austerity is not the answer.
What matters more than deficits is what we do with money; borrowing to finance high-productivity investments in education, technology, or infrastructure strengthens a nation’s balance sheet.
In this scenario, countries interested in borrowing large amounts from abroad would need to develop institutions that made the promise to repay credible.
But domestic borrowing is not a panacea.
Russia needed to borrow, and it was borrowing heavily in foreign currency.
This would force the Fed to raise interest rates even faster, which would derail the US’s recovery, by increasing long-term borrowing costs and strengthening the dollar.
To finance local businesses, Chinese local governments use local-government financing vehicles (LGFVs) to circumvent bans on direct borrowing.
Rumors of an imminent default swirl around Sicily, whose governor has resigned as borrowing soared after cutbacks from Rome.
When the price is zero, it makes no difference whether money is kept under a mattress or lent, because there is no cost to holding or borrowing cash.
There was also excess in the securitized products that converted these debts into toxic financial derivatives; in borrowing by local governments; in financing for leveraged buyouts that should never have occurred; in corporate bonds that will now suffer massive losses in a surge of defaults; in the dangerous and unregulated credit default swap market.
In fact, there is substantial scope to increase public infrastructure investment, particularly while borrowing costs remain historically low.
Special-interest spending leads to budget deficits, while the borrowing needed to finance these deficits drains yet more money from infrastructure and education.
The Fed is borrowing a page from the script of its last normalization campaign – the incremental rate hikes of 2004-2006 that followed the extraordinary accommodation of 2001-2003.
It would limit the extent to which government borrowing fuels inter-bank money creation, or at least force financiers to tie up some of their inter-bank money in the closed, domestic fiscal money system, thereby minimizing shocks from sudden capital flight.
Borrowing a term from nuclear strategy, the situation between Israel and the Palestinians can be described only as “mutually assured destruction,” also known, fittingly, as MAD.
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