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One key sign is the documented change in the character of oil trading, with speculators (i.e., financial institutions and hedge funds) now accounting for 70% of trades, up from 37% seven years ago.
Many countries continue to limit foreign investment and ownership in specific sectors, restrict their pension funds’ foreign-investment positions, and limit foreign investors’ access to local stock markets.
Finally, many governments explicitly or implicitly restrict parent banks’ ability to use government funds to back up their East European subsidiaries, many of them critical to the stability of the local financial systems.
In October, the Department of Labor followed up with a “clarification’’ that eased worries at pension funds about investing in ventures that produce social as well as economic returns.
Of course, though these changes open the way for philanthropic foundations and pension funds to become major investors in pay-for-success projects, success is not guaranteed.
On the other side are those who argue that Brexit would unshackle the UK from the grip of EU bureaucracy and stop the flow of British taxpayer funds to other countries.
Market-neutral hedge funds turned out not to be market-neutral and had to be unwound.
In other words, through a conscious effort, backed by public funds, we can steer the development of the advanced technologies needed to ensure humanity’s safety and wellbeing.
Governments cannot afford to recapitalize the banks now; it would leave them with insufficient funds to deal with the sovereign-debt problem.
By discontinuing some or all of these subsidies – which, of course, do not include expenditures in areas like health, education, nutrition, rural and urban development programs, and environmental protection – the government could secure the funds to offer everyone, rich and poor, a reasonable basic income.
After World War II, as a leading figure in developing the Marshall Plan, Kindleberger set about applying these lessons: the US should keep its markets and its flow of funds open to support other countries.
“Surplus” Chinese savings made possible America’s credit expansion between 2003-2005, when the federal funds rate (the overnight rate at which US banks lend to one another) was held at 1%.Ultra-cheap money produced a surge in sub-prime mortgage lending – a market that collapsed when interest rates increased steadily after 2005, reaching 5%.The financial crisis of 2008 was the start of a highly painful, but inevitable, process of de-leveraging.
Now that the referendum is over, Johnson and others have backtracked, and the campaign has rebranded itself the “Change Britain” movement and promised to redirect EU funds to other areas instead.
To prevent arbitrage tending to undo central bank interventions, countries (in particular small countries) need obstacles to the unwanted movement of funds in and out of their currency.
That would mean further humiliation for ordinary people, who bear the brunt of corruption, as government officials and their crony capitalists continued to siphon off public funds.
And, given the current global economic crisis, the funds are not likely to be forthcoming in the near future.
But global investors’ sentiment about China manifests itself in a variety of ways, including in the Hong Kong stock market, where many Chinese companies have dual listings, and in the performance of China-tracking exchange-traded funds.
As part of long-term portfolio-diversification strategies, many large institutional investors have set targets for the share of their funds in emerging-market assets.
When homeowners default, banks lose money, and uncertainty about the extent of future defaults undermines confidence in banks’ capital, making it more difficult for them to raise funds and causing them to reduce their lending in order to conserve existing resources.
Further efforts to support economic recovery will likely require fiscal interventions, such as so-called helicopter money – the injection of funds into the economy by the central bank.
Because the holders of the distributed funds have no claim on the central bank, the increase in the monetary base should not be viewed as a liability, but as an increase in the central bank’s net worth.
The growth pact can be properly financed by new sources of revenue, such as a financial-transaction tax and joint project bonds for infrastructure investment, or by curbing tax evasion and tax fraud and eliminating tax havens, as well as by more efficient and intelligent use of structural funds.
Channeling EU structural funds towards innovation is essential, given that spending on research and development is alarmingly low compared to our global partners.
In the immediate future, Sberbank – and other sanctioned banks – will be able to replace European funds with liquidity provided by the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) or Asian sources.
With MSCI now set to offer investors emerging-markets indices that exclude Russia, a massive sell-off of Russian stocks by index funds will drive down prices further.
The economist Dani Rodrik recently suggested that governments should fund themselves from the dividends earned by investing in public venture funds, thus socializing the gains from innovation.
Matters may become even worse in the future, because so-called “vulture” funds have learned how to take full advantage of countries in distress.
With access to extensive funds, this group appears to sub-contract many of its operations to organized crime or “casual” insurgents motivated more by pay than by ideology.
Now we need funds, commitment, and the resolve to implement the plan presented in Abu Dhabi.
The Obama administration is promising to pick up losses to persuade hedge funds and other private investors to buy out banks’ bad assets.
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