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During the past 12 months, China had a current-account surplus of nearly $300 billion, which must be added to China’s existing
holdings
of securities denominated in dollars, euros, and other foreign currencies.
According to the Bank for International Settlements, central banks’ combined asset
holdings
in the major advanced economies (the US, the eurozone, and Japan) expanded by $8.3 trillion over the past nine years, from $4.6 trillion in 2008 to $12.9 trillion in early 2017.
The report now shows only the aggregate figure, which combines central bank
holdings
with those of the private sector.
But governments can go beyond such methods, demanding that financial institutions maintain or increase their
holdings
of government debt, as the UK’s Financial Service Authority did in 2009.
A senior Italian banker once said that Italian banks would be hanged by the Ministry of Finance if they sold any of their government-debt
holdings.
When US-based AES Silk Road failed to transform Georgia’s energy system, Chubais’s RAO UES bought AES’s
holdings
and other assets that amounted to 75% of the country’s electricity network.
Focusing on “net” government debt (which excludes intra-government debt holdings, such as the bonds owned by central banks) is a more effective approach to assessing and ensuring the sustainability of public debt.
Equity
holdings
are somewhat more concentrated, but many middle class Americans have still benefited indirectly through their pension funds.
To see why, suppose a country had gross government debt of 250% of GDP, net debt of 150%, and central bank bond
holdings
of 100% of GDP, leaving net debt of 50%.
Much has been written, and many hands wrung, about the dollar’s decline over the last four decades, but the fact remains that
holdings
of US dollar assets by foreigners today are vastly greater than they were in 1971.
In theory, as the economy picks up and interest rates begin to climb, central banks will simply pay higher interest rates on their reserves, so that they can finance their
holdings
of long-term securities and shrink them slowly.
But higher interest rates also imply large capital losses for central banks’ asset
holdings.
Even if some of these losses are offset for the government as a whole (as the central bank loses on its
holdings
of government debt, the treasury gains in equal measure, because the debt it owes is worth less), the losses on long-term private debt
holdings
are real.
Will opinion be sympathetic to the Fed when politicians like Ron Paul excoriate it for losing tens of billions of dollars monthly on its asset
holdings?
Will bond markets fall sharply (and interest rates rise) as markets fear that the Fed will be pushed to sell its enormous
holdings
in short order?
No one wants to navigate the precarious government-debt dynamic that Japan faces, with debt levels far above 100% of GDP (even if one factors in the Japanese government’s vast
holdings
of foreign-exchange reserves.)
According to the Congressional Budget Office, virtually all of the growth in pre-tax household income over the QE period (2009 to 2014) occurred in the upper decile of the US income distribution, where the Fed’s own Survey of Consumer Finances indicates that the bulk of equity
holdings
are concentrated.
Un-wedging America without a crisis – attaining the economists’ grail of a “soft landing” – requires that a great many people and institutions with enormous
holdings
of dollar-denominated assets passively stand by and take no action while those dollar-denominated assets lose a third or more of their value against other currencies.
Realism would be a better basis for policy, converting some of the BOJ’s
holdings
of government bonds into a perpetual non-interest-bearing loan to the government.
One group – the “mercantilists” – argue that it is up to the state to maximize gold
holdings
and protect domestic manufacturing employment, by imposing tariffs, restricting the use of gold for imports, and forcing China to buy the same amount of goods from Venice that Venice buys from China.
Banks thus cannot use any
holdings
of California or Texas state debt to obtain central-bank funds.
For the last 50 years, government ownership of vast commercial
holdings
has triggered a polarized debate, especially in Europe, but recently also in the United States.
If
holdings
were reported using the International Financial Reporting Standards, which require the use of market value for assets, Boston’s
holdings
would be worth significantly more than what is currently reported.
At the same time, the Fed is already reducing its
holdings
of US Treasury bills and mortgage bonds.
And on April 10, the exchange rate’s rapid depreciation prompted the government to halt domestic foreign-exchange transactions and outlaw foreign-currency
holdings
of more than €10,000 ($12,000).
And in September, three major pension funds from North America and Europe announced plans to increase their
holdings
in low-carbon investments by more than $31 billion by 2020.
Five reforms were particularly effective: more flexible exchange rates, larger foreign-currency holdings, less pro-cyclical fiscal policy, stronger current accounts, and less debt denominated in dollars or other foreign currencies.
Land
holdings
can, in turn, be used as collateral, stimulating further credit flows and triggering successive rounds of asset-price appreciation.
For the first time since official gold transactions became more transparent, the Bundesbank has given notice that a significant portion of its
holdings
will be transferred home from France and the United States.
Reserve
holdings
of dollar assets (primarily by central banks) were worth around 2% of US GDP in 1948 and about the same in 1968.
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