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The move, which has come to be known as the “Draghi put,” almost immediately reduced
borrowing
costs for Spain and Italy, and is widely touted as having pulled the eurozone back from the brink of disaster – without ever using the so-called “outright monetary transactions.”
The result is typically both high inflation and high
borrowing
costs.
Without central-bank involvement, investors’ panicky prophecy would be self-fulfilling, with the resulting spike in
borrowing
costs making it impossible for the government to repay its creditors.
In Europe, that means agreeing on burden-sharing for re-capitalizing countries where deficits and debt have cut off market access or led to prohibitively high
borrowing
costs.
The annual military budget, which has increased by $150 billion since Bush took office, will need to be cut in coming years to get the budget under control;The US is
borrowing
massively from abroad.
Mian and Sufi show that the recession was caused by a collapse of household consumption, and that consumption fell most in those counties where pre-crisis
borrowing
and post-crisis real-estate prices left households facing the largest relative losses in net wealth.
For SMEs, a shortage of customers, not a shortage of credit, constrained borrowing, employment, and output.
While America benefits from increased demand for its Treasury bills (which reduces
borrowing
costs), developing countries receive a return of just 2% - essentially zero in real terms.
Once the deal was concluded, Argentina pursued massive new external borrowing, with the emerging world’s largest-ever debt issue, to help address its sizable fiscal deficit.
In the interest of lowering its
borrowing
costs, the authorities issued the new debt under New York law, despite the expensive battle that the country had just lost precisely because it had borrowed under that legal framework.
External
borrowing
is becoming a serious problem – one that is likely to intensify, as continued interest-rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve raise the costs of rolling over debts.
For example, the capital inflows associated with external
borrowing
are putting upward pressure on the peso, threatening sectors that are important for job creation.
It is heavily in debt, but cannot stop spending and
borrowing.
This level of annual
borrowing
is far too high for comfort.
And a country with a current-account surplus has the funds to lend and invest in the rest of the world, while a country with a current-account deficit must finance its external gap by
borrowing
from the rest of the world.
Obama and his congressional allies enacted an $800 billion “stimulus” bill that was loaded with programs geared to key Democratic constituencies, such as environmentalists and public employees; adopted a sweeping and highly unpopular health-care reform (whose constitutionality will be determined by the Supreme Court this year); imposed vast new regulations on wide swaths of the economy; embraced an industrial policy that selects certain companies for special treatment; engaged in
borrowing
and spending at levels exceeded only in World War II; and centralized power in Washington, DC (and, within the federal government, in the executive branch and regulatory agencies).
Some of this investment has been initially funded by
borrowing
in developed countries.
Governments, companies, investors, and individuals all need to shake off complacency and take a more disciplined approach to
borrowing
and lending to prepare for the end – or continuation – of QE.
Borrowing
increases risk in any business: you can’t go bankrupt if you have no debt.
Heavy
borrowing
also encourages owners and managers to go for broke, because it’s the creditors who bear most of the downside risk.
Limits on
borrowing
that make it difficult to earn an adequate return on equity encourage banks to load up on riskier, high-profit-margin loans – and requiring banks to hold more capital for supposedly riskier categories of assets exacerbates the problem.
They specified contributions to their $120 billion pool, set down
borrowing
entitlements, and allocated voting shares.
Rock-bottom
borrowing
costs also spur excessive reliance on leverage, weakening the will to undertake reforms needed to boost potential growth – and further exacerbating the economy’s vulnerability to a shift in interest rates or investor sentiment.
Moreover, the US runs a massive current-account deficit, meaning that it is
borrowing
much more from its foreign counterparts – especially China – than it is lending.
Businesses are reluctant to invest at a time when consumer demand is plummeting and they face unprecedented risk penalties on their
borrowing
costs.
First, the US cannot continue
borrowing
from the rest of the world as it has for the past eight years.
From their perspective, today’s high demand for long-term dollar-denominated securities is easily explained: Asian central banks are buying in order to hold down their currencies, the US Treasury is
borrowing
short (and thus not issuing that many long-term securities), and US companies are not undertaking the kinds of investments that would lead them to issue many long-term bonds.
Its financial support is limited to a percentage of members’ quotas, which do not reflect their potential
borrowing
needs.
Some argue that furnishing members with rapid and front-loaded liquidity insurance would encourage irresponsible policies or reckless
borrowing.
As for
borrowing
in European currencies, Griesa was quick to declare that his rulings would cover such bonds as well.
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