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Today’s feverish hand-wringing reflects a confluence of worries – especially concerns about inflation,
excess
investment, soaring wages, and bad bank loans.
A domestic saving rate in
excess
of 50% has served China well.
Fears of
excess
investment and “ghost cities” fixate on the supply side, without giving due weight to burgeoning demand.
A Mania for Diagnosing Bipolar DisorderPROVIDENCE, RI – During the past few years, many experts have suggested that bipolar disorder – a serious illness resulting in significant psychosocial morbidity and
excess
mortality – is under-recognized, particularly in patients with major depression.
Moreover, China has been charged with egregious violations of international rules, ranging from allegations of currency manipulation and state-subsidized dumping of
excess
capacity to cyber-hacking and forced technology transfer.
Assuming that quadrupling of relative value occurred over a hundred years, the
excess
return on investment amounts to only 1.5% per year – hardly the kind of performance that real estate enthusiasts are expecting.
There is
excess
capacity in some heavy industries and in residential real-estate markets in some second- and third-tier cities.Local governments have significant debts that were incurred at the request of the central government in 2007 and 2008 in order to avoid a serious economic downturn.
And adverse effects – such as a rising debt-to-GDP ratio and
excess
capacity – are inevitable.
Ultimately, these financial failures reflect the downward spiral of house prices and the increasing number of homes with negative equity, i.e., with substantial mortgage debt in
excess
of market values.
As homeowners with large negative equity default, the foreclosed homes contribute to the
excess
supply that drives prices down further.
First,
excess
capacity enabled companies to ramp up production.
Although the original rationale was to buy the crop in years of
excess
supply and sell in years of
excess
demand, thereby stabilizing prices, in practice the price paid to cocoa and coffee farmers, who were politically weak, was always below the world price in the early decades of independence.
Otherwise, the policy satisfies the
excess
demand via imports, and so raises the world price even more.
Some economies may sustain collateral damage from both sides of the war, because, in addition to the pressure coming from
excess
dollar liquidity, they may be confronted with tougher competition (domestically and in third markets) from China, so long as the renminbi remains quasi-pegged to the dollar.
The Fed’s policy of quantitative easing exacerbates the flow of
excess
liquidity, which could result in dangerous bubbles in emerging markets.
Meanwhile, the trade surplus is rising again, in part because China is dumping its
excess
supply of goods – such as steel – in global markets.
High on the list of supply-side policies is eliminating some of the
excess
capacity of state-owned firms in the steel and coal industries.
It will also provide an opportunity to export some of China’s
excess
industrial capacity.
If necessary, it could also deal with the
excess
debts that local governments, encouraged by the central authorities, incurred in 2008 and 2009.
They held large inventories of these assets, thus providing liquidity and smoothing
excess
price volatility.
Not only does
excess
capacity have a negative impact on growth; perhaps more important, sharply declining growth also contributes to massive redundancy in some industries (especially resources and the heavy and chemical industries).
Without the additional money that GIPS central banks created in
excess
of their countries’ requirements for internal circulation, trade deficits could not have been sustained, and the GIPS’ commercial banks would have been unable to prop up asset prices (which all too often were those of government bonds).
An
excess
of poorly equipped health facilities is not only ineffective; it can actually make matters worse, owing to factors like poor sanitation and weak emergency referral systems.
By contrast, countries that exported capital now enjoy an
excess
of liquidity because capital is shying away from “saturated” countries.
This
excess
supply of credit results in additional consumption and investment, triggering a boom.
And that this in turn requires annual GDP growth rates in
excess
of 7%?
It can also reflect the government’s penchant for running fiscal surpluses; after all, the current-account surplus, by definition, is the
excess
of public and private savings over investment.
That framework is based on spending and demand, the determinants of the components of spending, the liquidity-preference theory of short-run interest rates, and the requirement that government make strategic but powerful interventions in the economy to keep it on an even keel and avoid extremes of depression and manic
excess.
Commercial banks could place their
excess
funds in riskless deposits at the Fed, rather than lending them to private borrowers.
The risk is that the commercial banks could always decide to start using those
excess
reserves, forgoing the low rate of interest paid on deposits by the Fed (only 0.25%) and lending those funds to firms and households.
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