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As if on cue, that facade began to crumble, revealing an inconvenient truth: factors like high commodity prices and massive capital inflows had been concealing serious economic weaknesses, while legitimizing a culture of garish inequality and rampant corruption.
Latin America is exposed to lower commodity prices (as both China and the advanced economies slow).
Predominantly a commodity exporter, Russia has less need for the WTO than a manufacturer like China.
Yet, at a time when attention is supplanting money as the most valuable commodity, the impact of their decisions is far-reaching.
Sky-high commodity prices, rock-bottom dollar interest rates, and ample international liquidity are what Chile hopes for in the rest of the world; they are also precisely what Chile got since 2010.
Unsurprisingly, growth was swift – until late last year, when the combination of the US Federal Reserve’s gradual exit from quantitative easing and lower commodity prices worldwide caused a swift deceleration in economic activity.
But equally important is the strength of the Chinese economy, with buoyant industrial production fueling a sharp rise in global commodity prices.
Or your commodity exports hit the jackpot?
Suddenly, something (an increase in United States interest rates, a drop in commodity prices, a domestic political conflict) causes the local currency to drop in value against the dollar.
Under these circumstances, large excess capacity develops and commodity prices fall.
Eventually, lower commodity prices and lower inflation will act like a huge tax cut for households, allowing interest rates to fall further and thus stabilize economic activity.
Moreover, most plastic products are made from so-called “petroleum-based commodity thermoplastics.”
Given the difficulty and expense of separating plastics, the most economically viable option is often secondary recycling of a few commodity thermoplastics – mostly bottles, for which collection infrastructure is already in place.
By contrast, China’s real growth was three times that of Brazil and Russia, but its terms of trade actually deteriorated by 26%, because its manufactured exports became cheaper while its commodity imports became more expensive.
As China’s growth slows, so does its demand for oil and commodities, with severe effects for other emerging economies that depend on commodity exports.
Moreover, the benefits of lower commodity prices do not seem to have materialized among net importers, except perhaps India; if they have, they have been far from adequate to offset other growth-damaging forces.
To be sure, some have argued that this was made possible by favorable external conditions, including high commodity prices, which supported economic expansion.
Second, extremely loose monetary policies (zero interest rates, quantitative easing, new credit facilities, emissions of government bonds, and purchases of illiquid and risky private assets), together with the huge sums spent to stabilize the financial system, may be causing a new liquidity-driven asset bubble in financial and commodity markets.
Reform and high commodity prices are buoying the region.
Unfortunately, no one, certainly not in Asia or the United States, seems willing to bite the bullet and help engineer the necessary coordinated retreat to sustained sub-trend growth, which is necessary so that new commodity supplies and alternatives can catch up.
Instead, governments are clawing to stretch out unsustainable booms, further pushing up commodity prices, and raising the risk of a once-in-a-lifetime economic and financial mess.
Desperate to sustain their political and economic momentum, most have taken a wide variety of steps to prevent their economies from feeling the full brunt of the commodity price hikes.
As a result, higher commodity prices are eating into fiscal cushions rather than curtailing demand.
A general rise in global demand will simply spill over into higher commodity prices, with little helpful effect on consumption.
Some central bankers tell us not to worry, because they will be much more disciplined than central banks were in the 1970’s, when the world faced a similar commodity price spike.
The commodity price problem has snuck up on us, despite notable institutional reforms in macroeconomic policymaking all over the world.
As a result, commodity resource constraints that we once expected to face in the middle of the twenty-first century are hitting us today.
For a variety of reasons, mostly related to government intervention, few emerging market economies can be categorized as having flexible resource demand, so commodity price spikes are not having a particularly big effect on demand.
No, this time, commodity resources are the primary constraint, rather than a secondary problem, as in the past.
That is why commodity prices will just keep soaring until world growth slows down long enough for new supply and new conservation options to catch up with demand.
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