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To make the European Central Bank a lender of last resort for all of the euro-zone countries, for example, would give distressed European governments some added breathing space.
Distressed debtors need a fresh start.
The old Bundesbank was laid to rest on September 6, when the ECB adopted its “outright monetary transactions” program – unlimited purchases of distressed eurozone countries’ government bonds – over the objections of a lone dissenter: Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann.
Even for distressed households that have borrowed long term, the effects of higher inflation are uncertain.
Throughout the crisis, it has been widely assumed – at least so far – that the eurozone core would remain solid, and would continue to write the checks for the periphery’s distressed governments and banks.
But that misses the key point: Spain, Ireland, and many other distressed countries ran budget surpluses before the crisis.
However clear their non-guaranteed status, financially distressed cities or states – whether New York in the 1970s or Puerto Rico today – can put serious pressure on national political leaders to offer assistance.
First, in the Greek case, there is the fear of contagion to other distressed European economies, such as Portugal and Ireland, or even Spain and Italy.
Although the March 8 alliance lost the election, not all of its members were equally distressed by the results.
Indeed, this radical disproportion makes nonsense of all arguments that the current distressed state of the overall US economy is in some sense necessary, deserved, or an inevitable consequence of over-exuberant building in the desert between Los Angeles, California and Albuquerque, New Mexico in the mid-2000’s.
No policy of national pride can justify callousness towards our own distressed citizens.
But if systemic risk emerges in ways that are not yet fully understood, smaller banks may all fail or become distressed simultaneously, damaging the real economy.
But safer, less indebted banks are better able to continue lending without becoming distressed or needing support.
Then, distressed sovereigns that had already lost market access – Greece and Ireland – were bailed out by the International Monetary Fund and the European Union.
Official resources currently are sufficient to bail out Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, but not to prevent a self-fulfilling run on the short-term sovereign and financial liabilities of Spain and other potentially distressed eurozone members.
Similarly, super-sovereigns cannot continue to bail out distressed sovereigns that are insolvent rather than illiquid.
Thus, in addition to an orderly resolution regime for banks, Europe must also implement early orderly restructurings of distressed sovereigns’ public debt.
If you overeat once a week for three months, lacking self-control and experiencing over-fullness afterward, and are distressed, embarrassed, and disgusted with yourself, you are diagnosable.
If you resist discarding possessions that others (a spouse, say, or a clinician) find of limited value, and consequently clutter your living space, and you are distressed about this or are creating what others consider an unsafe environment, you are diagnosable.
For example, if you are sad for two weeks and have one other related symptom, such as fatigue, insomnia, or lessened appetite, and you are distressed or impaired at work or in other roles, then you have “subsyndromal depression.”
But research shows that virtually anyone with two weeks of sadness feels distressed and is likely to be role-impaired, so in effect this category elevates moderately prolonged normal sadness into a mental disorder.
At that point, the EU would be wise to follow suit, by unraveling the currency union and providing debt reduction for its most distressed economies.
And there should be no illusion that the tariff will be a panacea for an increasingly distressed solar industry.
But now Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis is threatening to derail these countries' export-led growth, while credit rationing by distressed banks is fueling a trade-finance downturn, hindering the flow of goods in and out of poor countries.
But the declining value of their sovereign debt – and the size of that debt relative to that of Europe’s smaller distressed countries – implies much greater erosion of banks’ capital base, raising the additional risk of liquidity problems and further economic damage.
Having mounted exceptional efforts, first to provide financing for Greece’s adjustment program, and then to create a safety net for other distressed countries, the European Council established a task force, chaired by President Herman van Rompuy and composed largely of EU finance ministers, to make proposals for reform.
By contrast, the ECB’s credit easing is motivated by a practical concern: banks from some parts of the eurozone – namely, from the distressed countries on its periphery – have been effectively cut off from the inter-bank market.
A European banking union would move responsibility for dealing with bank failures to the eurozone level – akin to America, where distressed banks in, say, Florida are dealt with by federal authorities with the power to bail in bondholders, inject federal funds, and close down financial institutions.
The Fed’s support for Europe was similarly remarkable, because the rest of the US government was an ineffective bystander at the time – able to offer cheap counsel but little hard cash to the eurozone’s distressed economies.
Significantly, QE is very much a reactive approach – aimed at sparking revival in distressed markets and economies after they have collapsed.
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