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This would leave the Fed extremely vulnerable to enormous losses should global forces suddenly drive up
equilibrium
interest rates, with the US government then compelled to pay much higher interest rates to roll over its debt.
The 2008 global financial crisis left the US economy mired in a low-level equilibrium, characterized by sluggish job creation, persistently high long-term and youth unemployment, and growing inequalities of income, wealth, and opportunity.
If the resulting real exchange rate is not too far from that of the base year, the market is said to be in equilibrium, and little or no further depreciation should be expected.
Today, it is no longer unusual to suggest that the West could linger in a low-level growth
equilibrium
for an unusually prolonged period.
Yet, as I explain in my new book The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse, growing internal tensions and contradictions, together with over-reliance on monetary policy, are destabilizing that
equilibrium.
The theory holds that financial markets do not tend towards
equilibrium.
Fundamentalists believe that markets tend towards
equilibrium
and the common interest is best served by allowing participants to pursue their self-interest.
Turkey may be fated to experience a relatively long period of political uncertainty and instability before a new
equilibrium
is found.
But individual countries would orient intervention and economic policies toward defending the
equilibrium
rate, or, more radically, an international authority might authorize aggressive intervention by trading partners to promote consistency.
As a result, balance-of-payments
equilibrium
would be reached at a certain exchange-rate level, but a current-account surplus (albeit smaller) would still exist.
The case for waiting is that we really have no idea of what the
equilibrium
real (inflation-adjusted) policy interest rate is right now, and as such, need a clear signal on price growth before moving.
This “dealers’ peace” can be explained by the Mexican government’s policy of tolerance, which sought a degree of
equilibrium
between the drug cartels and the state in terms of trafficking routes and the territories that the cartels infiltrated.
As drug lords were arrested, the
equilibrium
between gangs was destroyed, paving the way to a war between the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels – the two largest – which has generated enormous violence, as well as sharp US protests because of the impact of the fighting along the border.
There is no “natural rate of inequality” characterizing an economy in equilibrium, a level at which policymakers can aim.
The North Korean regime has declared explicitly that it seeks “military equilibrium” with the US in order to avert a similar scenario.
Having learned his lesson during Iraq’s brutal and costly war with Iran in the 1980s, Saddam was careful not to disturb the region’s geopolitical
equilibrium.
After all, with the Chinese economy undergoing wholesale economic transformation, estimating a long-term
equilibrium
exchange rate that will anchor speculation is virtually impossible, particularly given persistent doubts about data quality, disclosure, and opaque policymaking processes.
Perhaps the market for news will eventually find its own
equilibrium
between truth and falsehood.
But if the spread of misinformation is thought of as a virus, there is no natural
equilibrium
to be had, short of catastrophe.
With the possible exception of the four Scandinavian countries, no society with a market economy found, or even sought, the
equilibrium
between state and market necessary to maintain a sufficient level of public services.
Either central banks would manage somehow to thread the needle and guide exchange rates and asset prices back to some stable and sustainable
equilibrium
configuration, or the chaos and disruption in financial markets would spill over into the real economy and a major global downturn would begin.
The political disputes now taking place in Great Britain, in Germany, and in other countries, concerns the effort to define the right
equilibrium.
This increasingly is considered to be beyond the desirable
equilibrium
and that is why we presently are confronted in Germany and other continental European countries with the difficult task of restoring some of the private law areas and reduce, let me say the public law, the government intervention areas.
In this sense, markets should view the Greek situation as an equilibrium, not a transition.
There would be no well-defined market equilibrium, or upper bound, for the renminbi/dollar exchange rate.
It needs to be explained why the euro remains the best protection there is against inflation, the most dangerous social ill of all; why government stimulus will not work and never actually has delivered sustained growth; and why a new
equilibrium
between welfare and economic dynamism – based on less public debt and more private investment – must be established.
At the very least, it would bring a sense of coherence to the actions of politicians, and those opposed to this search for a new European
equilibrium
– mostly Marxists and populists – would need to compete with a new vision of their own.
Before the crisis, Europe looked like the most likely candidate to make a successful transition to the first
equilibrium
– greater political unification.
But, eight years after the crisis erupted, what the global economy is experiencing is starting to look less like a slow recovery than like a new low-growth
equilibrium.
The shift to a high sovereign-debt-yield
equilibrium
would make it impossible to achieve fiscal balance.
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