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Foreigners currently own about 30% of all US Treasury securities, with the latest official data putting Chinese ownership at $1.15 trillion in June 2017 – fully 19% of total foreign
holdings
and slightly higher than Japan’s $1.09 trillion.
Yet few so far have applied the ESG principles to their endowment’s fossil-fuel
holdings.
Participating central banks and asset managers would then have to swap their reserve-currency
holdings
for e-SDRs.
Finally, the proposed “better use” of the IMF’s gold
holdings
to finance the costs of debt relief seeks to raise up to $8 billion.
At the current market price, this would require selling about a quarter of the Fund’s
holdings
of 103.4 million fine ounces.
It is no coincidence that from 2010 to 2014, the largest banks, firms, and investment funds increased their cash
holdings
by $3 trillion – roughly the amount by which central banks in reserve-currency countries expanded their balance sheets over the same period.
If the bank’s financial condition deteriorated, their bond
holdings
might motivate them to conceal that and hope for a turnaround before their bonds were wiped out.
That’s especially true of American consumers who have relied on appreciation of equity
holdings
and home values to support over-extended lifestyles.
Of course, the ECB will have to continue to provide support to banks until confidence about their
holdings
returns.
Russia is really the only major emerging market to increase its gold purchases significantly, in no small part due to Western sanctions, with
holdings
now amounting to almost 15% of reserves.
Households would cut spending, and investors would reduce their American holdings, driving the dollar down against the Euro and other currencies.
After the euro came into force, commercial banks could refinance their
holdings
of government bonds at the discount window of the European Central Bank, and regulators treated government bonds as riskless.
Moreover, China is the largest holder of US Treasury securities (aside from the Federal Reserve), has significant euro holdings, is likely soon to become America’s largest trade partner, and looms large in trade with many European and Asian economies.
In short, current bank regulation neither encourages nor discourages the home-country bias in banks’ sovereign-debt
holdings.
Against this background, European policymakers and regulators must take action to encourage banks to diversify their sovereign-debt
holdings.
A more feasible solution would be to introduce an explicit regulatory bias against home-country sovereign-debt
holdings.
But, thanks to the appreciation of foreign
holdings
of Japanese equities, the country’s net international asset position actually deteriorated, from a peak of $3.8 trillion at the end of 2012 to $2.8 trillion at the end of 2015.
As Bank of Japan economists point out, Japanese
holdings
of foreign assets are less profitable than foreign
holdings
of Japanese assets.
Successful businessmen could in fact build up extensive
holdings
by owning or sharing several businesses.
Then they realized that their
holdings
in liquid and low-return assets far exceed what is needed to avoid the type of speculative runs that East Asia experienced in 1997, and Russia in 1998.
But, according to US Treasury data, China’s
holdings
of US government securities totaled $1.16 trillion at the end of 2010, accounting for roughly 60% of the overall increase in foreign official
holdings
of US government debt.
China’s
holdings
of US Treasuries increased by $351 billion between June 2009 and June 2010 alone, the largest jump on record.
But China should at least stop increasing its
holdings.
Yet China's 2010 trade surplus was still $183 billion; its current-account surplus soared 25% from 2009, to $306.2 billion; and its balance-of-payments surplus last year totaled more than $470 billion – the bulk of which must have been invested in new
holdings
of foreign-exchange reserves.
But such interventions inevitably translate into more
holdings
of US government securities.
The rapid growth in America’s gross liabilities to the rest of the world is apparent in US Treasury data on foreign
holdings
of US securities, which rose from $9.8 trillion in 2007 to $17.1 trillion by June 2015, of which $10.5 trillion was debt and $6.6 trillion equity.
Foreign
holdings
of US securities were equivalent to 95% of US GDP in June 2015.
As the dollar strengthens, the value of US
holdings
of foreign assets will decline in dollar terms, while the country’s liabilities will continue to grow, owing to sustained fiscal and current-account deficits (now running at around 3-4% of GDP annually).
The reason deficit reduction worked in the US in 1993 was that America's banks, whose balance sheets were weak, had large
holdings
of long-term bonds, the value of which increased as long-term interest rates fell.
Meanwhile, the yen would weaken, helping exports, and even if the real exchange rate did not change much, given Japan's position as a major creditor, the yen value of its foreign
holdings
would increase, providing still more economic stimulus.
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