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China represents what might be called the Economic Security State: seeking to channel domestic savings into household consumption to sustain GDP growth and popular support, while using its investment power abroad to secure the commodities and energy that underpin its industrialization.
Trade reforms must be sensitive to the effects on developing countries, many of which are net importers of subsidized agricultural commodities.
International agreement to ensure that countries do not prohibit exports, especially of critical commodities, except under severely (and verifiably) adverse domestic circumstances, would help reduce fear of market breakdown.
Their compatriots in Sierra Leone also want to know what will happen now that they, too, have won the commodities lottery: last year, the country struck oil and discovered one of the largest iron-ore deposits in the world.
First, a weaker dollar is associated with a higher dollar price for commodities, which implies a drag on the trade balance, because the US is a net commodity-importing country.
The economic boom brought on by soaring global demand for commodities – Argentina is a leading exporter of soy beans, corn, wheat, honey, and limes, for example – resulted from a shift in Argentine farming that pre-dates the Kirchners: the old landholders have given way to operators with managerial skills.
But Argentina remains overly dependent on commodities, and has failed to encourage economic activity based on its peoples’ culture and ingenuity.
For example, price controls, rather than lowering prices, often cause scarcity and the emergence of a black market in which controlled commodities cost significantly more.
At the same time, the agreement eliminates most import tariffs for commodities like rice, yellow corn, or dairy products.
Incomes produced by these illegal markets are huge, competing in size with Latin America’s most successful legal commodities.
Second, the world economy is vastly larger than in the past, so that demand for key commodities and energy inputs is also vastly larger.
An economy is healthier if monetary policy responds to an increase in the world prices of its exported commodities by tightening enough to cause the currency to appreciate.
But CPI targeting instead tells the central bank to tighten policy in response to an increase in the world price of imported commodities – exactly the opposite of accommodating the adverse shift in the terms of trade.
As the financial crisis deepened and spread from late 2007, speculators began investing in commodities, and the dollar’s decline relative to other currencies has also induced such investments.
The scarcity of primary commodities and damage from climate change in recent years contributed to the destabilization of the world economy that gave rise to the current crisis.
De-Risking RevisitedNEW YORK – Until the recent bout of financial-market turbulence, a variety of risky assets (including equities, government bonds, and commodities) had been rallying since last summer.
This explains the underperformance of commodities and emerging-market equities even before the recent turmoil.
With oil, food and other commodities firm, and the renminbi appreciating somewhat faster, the Fed also has to worry about inflation.
Industrial production is falling at double-digit rates in the negative-inflation countries, and the price index for all commodities is down more than 30% over the past year.
As the IMF cautions, “core inflation – excluding commodities – has risen from 2% to 3.75%, suggesting that inflation is broadening.”
Progress on roads, railways, and power projects – all of which could prevent food from perishing prematurely, and energy and commodities from being unnecessarily wasted – is essential to stabilizing prices.
The recent market rallies in stocks, commodities, and credit may have gotten ahead of the improvement in the real economy.
Relentless efficiency gains in agriculture and resource extraction pushed down prices for commodities, especially during the 1980’s and 1990’s.
While there will always be cycles – oil prices, for example, will probably fall before they start rising again – the long-run trend for many commodities will clearly remain upward for some time to come.
Are today’s rich countries prepared for an era of co-dependency, in which they are just as desperate for commodities as developing countries are for industrial imports and technology?
Some self-anointed seers portray the problem as being one of finite natural resources, with the world running out of critical commodities at an alarming rate.
No, the world is not about to run out of commodities.
Given China’s size and its rising share in the global market, macroeconomic instability there fuels volatility in global prices for basic commodities and raw materials.
Economists have included in such analysis that people interact with others, but they have largely treated such social interactions in amechanical fashion, as if they were commodities.
Other than oil, gas, and other commodities, China has rather limited interests in Russia.
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