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In other words, such a world needed either the reality or the illusion that finance could, as John Maynard Keynes put it, “defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelop our future.”
Most reforms that would guard against macroeconomic risk would also limit the ability of finance to persuade people to commit to long-term risky investments, and hence further lower the supply of finance willing to assume such undertakings.
First, modern finance is simply too politically powerful for legislatures or regulators to restrain its ability to create systemic macroeconomic risk.
Finally, the social returns from investment in finance as the industry of the future have largely disappeared over the past generation.
At that point, it is time either for creative thinking about how funding can be channeled to the real economy in a way that bypasses modern finance, with its large negative alpha, or to risk being sucked dry.
Indeed, many borrowed to finance their spending, with the result that the proportion of poorer households in financial distress or filing for bankruptcy was significantly higher in areas where the rich earned (and spent) more.
They benefited from limiting competition and controlling access to finance.
Instead, they split on the basis of whose non-rich constituents were more desirous of obtaining finance.
We should not come away from these episodes thinking that expanding access to finance is bad.
In general, expanding access is beneficial (just not before a crisis!), but finance is a powerful tool that has to be used sensibly.
Unblocking Corporate Governance ReformCAMBRIDGE – When they met earlier this month, G-20 finance ministers and central bankers called for global improvements in corporate governance.
A possible key to mutual confidence would be for the Democrats to hold the crucial finance ministry, while M5S appoints the prime minister.
A Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) owning the rights could use the ECB to finance the cost of acquiring the bonds without violating Article 123 of the Lisbon Treaty.
If this effort produced just a 10% reduction in the average losses from illicit financial flows, compared to 2002-2012, it would save countries $768 billion – money that could be used to finance development projects.
Later it confined its attack to liberal capitalism, especially “international finance.”
Central banks and finance ministries will almost always rush to offset rising risk premia by adjusting interest rates or fiscal policies, and investors bid assets back to their pre-crisis values.
Revival of trade credit is also urgent - its importance was recognized early on during East Asia's crisis, where Japan, in a good neighborly gesture, provided $30 billion dollars through the Miyazawa initiative, much of which went to finance trade credit and help restart the economy.
Indeed, analyzing more long-term data for the international donor community may impede finance ministries’ ability to make high-frequency data available for running the country.
Some EU countries - particularly new members in Central and Eastern Europe - have committed themselves to use privatization receipts to finance pension reform.
Those Fickle Sovereign Wealth FundsNEW YORK – Two years ago, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) were the bogeymen of world finance.
When the capital stock – including infrastructure – is deficient, investing in it is one of the quickest ways to generate growth (as long as finance is available).
Just as there is a chief economic adviser in the finance ministry, why not have a technocratic chief education adviser or a chief health adviser to work with the education and health secretaries?
“Whenever we buy products made in China,” he wrote last year of the US and its allies, “we as consumers are helping to finance a Chinese military buildup that may well mean to do us and our countries harm.”
But women entrepreneurs need better access to finance.
But, as the role of manufacturing diminished in advanced economies, the brightest talents tended to gravitate to finance and other service fields that were growing rapidly – and paying well.
And, rather than declare victory, as they were inclined to do in a mid-June statement by eurozone finance ministers, European officials should treat this compromise as the next step in softening its increasingly untenable stance on Greek debt.
Anyone familiar with Dubai understands that these are but small examples of a much broader embrace of creativity that has allowed the country to court elite foreign professionals in finance and other industries.
The finance sector did not look kindly on those who pointed out that the New Economy bubble of the late 1990s, or the credit expansion that preceded the 2008 global financial crisis, had created a large febezzle.
The EU could, for example, finance construction of residential buildings, offices, warehouses, and public-sector facilities, increasing demand for local construction services.
Either such a firm would be allowed to fail, with dire consequences for global finance, or there would be some sort of backdoor bailout.
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