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The Fed introduced quantitative easing –
buying
large quantities of long-term bonds and promising to keep short-term interest rates low for a prolonged period – after it concluded that the US economy was not responding adequately to traditional monetary policy and to the fiscal stimulus package enacted in 2009.
Japan, meanwhile is running a 10%-of-GDP budget deficit, even as growing cohorts of new retirees turn from
buying
Japanese bonds to selling them.
If the ECB wants to reduce the value of the euro and increase the eurozone’s near-term inflation rate, the only reliable way to do so may be by direct intervention in the currency market – that is, selling euros and
buying
a basket of other currencies.
Even the European Central Bank chipped in,
buying
government bonds of over-indebted countries, using a loophole in the Maastricht Treaty and overruling the Bank’s German representatives.
The dollar originally acquired international currency status in the 1920’s, when the newly established Federal Reserve started
buying
and selling dollar acceptances, backstopping the market and enhancing its liquidity.
In short, QE – lowering long-term interest rates by
buying
long-term bonds and mortgages – won’t do much to stimulate business directly.
More dangerous is the possibility that political uncertainty in the run-up to the referendum will discourage foreigners from
buying
British assets – a major problem for a country with a large current-account deficit.
Now it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to explain why their wives and children are
buying
palaces in the capitals of countries that are supposedly Russia’s sworn enemies.
Those with high levels of foreign debt but with reserves should also consider
buying
back their sovereign debt in the international capital market, taking advantage of falling bond prices.
Issuing GDP-linked bonds is akin to
buying
insurance against economic distress.
Essentially, financial firms have been
buying
the right to take on more risk.
By selling cloth and
buying
wine, Great Britain obtains more of both, as does Portugal.
No one frets anymore about Japan
buying
its way to world domination.
Almost, for capital flight is now rampant - $40 billion - and this does not count money the government spent behind the scenes
buying
back debt to support prices in world markets.
For one thing, Jews had more experience with commerce than most other groups, and the tacit knowledge of buying, selling, and calculating advantage that was passed on in families with ties to business helps explain why Jews tended to be better at it.
The risk here is that providing too much information in real time about the securities that the Fed is
buying
and the institutions that it is helping could destabilize markets.
To increase commercial banks’ reserves, the Fed historically used open-market operations,
buying
Treasury bills from them.
Indeed, sound political decisions can achieve just as much as
buying
new ships – and at a far lower cost.
In the US, government fostered the airline business – largely by
buying
cargo services from private airlines.
Indeed, Trump already set off alarm bells during the campaign with careless remarks about trying to renegotiate US debt by
buying
it back from creditors at a discount.
These countries’ households continue to save, accumulating deposits at their local banks and
buying
bonds from their local wealth managers.
The central banks of South Korea, Brazil, Taiwan, Japan, Switzerland, and many other countries are now
buying
dollars in order to protect their own currencies against revaluation and thus to defend their exports.
During the first seven months of 2010, China not only refrained from
buying
any more US government paper, but even began to sell its holdings.
Other factors were probably far more important, including
buying
off Sunni insurgents so that they fight with the United States against Al Qaeda.
But the fact that several Asian and emerging-market countries are resisting this decline by
buying
dollars is putting inordinate pressures on the more flexible currencies, such as the euro and the Canadian dollar, which are trading at record levels.
To Trump’s mind, the trade deficit reflects difficulties for American enterprises, and implies that Americans are
buying
foreign instead of US goods.
We need to recognize that what really matters isn’t
buying
more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives.
That would remove the serious risk that the ECB could start
buying
bonds on the basis of agreed fiscal packages, and then be forced to react if governments fall short on implementing them.
An innovative fundraising mechanism called Voluntary Solidarity Contribution will allow air travelers and others to make a voluntary micro-donation to UNITAID simply by checking a box when buying, say, a plane ticket, and adding $2 to the total cost.
As the late MIT economist Rudi Dornbusch pointed out, it makes more sense for residents of poor countries to invest their resources at home in ways that raise productivity and living standards, rather than
buying
US Treasury bills.
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