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For governments, the key to success in regulating financial markets lies in maintaining reasonable constraints during boom times that prevent taxpayer funds from being put excessively at risk.
There is talk in many countries, even the US, that the time has come to ensure that the entire financial system, including hedge funds and investment banks, become subject to much stricter regulation.
On Monday he allowed Lehman Brothers to fail and refused to make government funds available to save AIG.
By Thursday a run on money market funds was in full swing and we came as close to a meltdown as at any time since the 1930s.
The injection of government funds would be much less problematic if it were applied to the equity rather than the balance sheet.
Making government funds available should also encourage the private sector to participate in recapitalizing the banking sector and bringing the financial crisis to a close.
Of the Arab countries receiving ENP funds, only Egypt has channeled a high proportion – nearly 50% – toward education.
In any case, Europe’s spending on education in the region is scattered among inter-regional, national, and thematic programs, which makes it difficult to see how these funds’ effectiveness might be measured.
If a central bank is committing public funds in support of individual firms, even with a systemic justification, do not different accountability considerations apply?
There is not yet a “Volcker Rule” (limiting proprietary trading by banks), the rules for derivatives are still a work-in-progress, and money-market funds remain unreformed.
Nonetheless, we should still worry about their ability to blow themselves up in a novel and creative fashion – hence the need for the Volcker Rule, derivatives reform, and new rules for money-market funds.
The G-8 leaders promised last year to fight hunger with $22 billion in new funds, but so far they are not delivering.
They promised to fight climate change with $30 billion of new emergency funds, but so far they are not delivering.
Capital-exporting developing nations should be willing to accept greater transparency in the operation of sovereign wealth funds and pledge not to use them for political purposes.
Since the end of 2015, the benchmark federal funds rate has been raised to 1.5%.
Likewise, sovereign wealth funds with immense clout in the global financial system are redirecting their investments toward the green economy.
Even large pension funds are beginning to take notice.
The three countries that served as pillars of regional stability for the past several years – Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa – are now too pre-occupied with political troubles of their own to provide the peacekeepers, reconstruction funds, and political pressure that often limit the damage from conflicts elsewhere in the region.
Why Europe Needs Automatic HaircutsMUNICH – Having already agreed to double the AAA-rated lending capacity of the European Financial Stability Facility, the special fund created by eurozone states to provide assistance to troubled member economies, European Union countries are now discussing the conditions under which the EFSF’s funds will be made available.
Should one of these banks run into trouble because of a sovereign-debt default, the necessary rescue funds will be readily available.
It certainly did not serve homeowners who are losing their homes, workers who have lost their jobs, retirees who have seen their retirement funds vanish, or taxpayers who paid hundreds of billions to bail out the banks.
Even if true, evading the controls requires incurring additional costs to move funds in and out of a country – which is precisely what the controls aim to achieve.
These are interlinked, and stakeholders include central banks, FSAs, national treasuries, and deposit guarantee funds.
Other water funds that The Nature Conservancy has helped to develop around the world have proved to be similarly beneficial.
And 2% of assets under management is an annual fee that many sophisticated investors have been willing to pay private hedge funds – topped off with an extra fee of 20% of annual profits, which the Treasury is not paying.
And the sudden appearance of between five and ten different government-sponsored funds that make public bids for assets will convey information to the markets about what models other people are using to try to value assets in this environment.
Even though the US government is doing other things as well –fiscal stimulus, quantitative easing, and other uses of bailout funds – it is not doing everything it should.
Larger dividends paid to the budget from the highly profitable state-enterprise sector could also provide an alternative source of funds.
After all, effective financial markets should convey accurate long-term information to savers and investors, thereby enabling businesses, pension funds, insurance pools, sovereign wealth funds, and others to allocate their resources to projects that provide solid long-term payoffs, and protect their savings from financial calamities.
Among its proposals, The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System recommends that investment products like mutual funds should include a standardized disclosure label analogous to the nutritional labels on foods.
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