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The reality is that the EU can be criticized for the way it handled the crisis; but it cannot be blamed for the global economic imbalances that have fueled economic strife since 2008.
Those imbalances reflect a much broader phenomenon: globalization.
France and Southern European countries, by contrast, argue that governments need more flexibility to decide on fiscal and structural reforms, and that governments with greater fiscal leeway should help to address current imbalances by increasing their public expenditures.
“[T]rading partners and international institutions can do more to address trade imbalances,” the NSS asserts.
America’s trade and budget imbalances could soon get a lot worse if Trump and congressional Republicans get their way in cutting federal taxes still further.
Fiscal Follies in America and BeyondThose of us who know that long-run fiscal imbalances are likely to end in disaster – high inflation, deep recession, financial crisis, or all three – scratch our heads in bemusement at the priorities of George W. Bush and his administration.
WASHINGTON, DC – At a time when the global economy is suffering from a crisis of confidence, structural imbalances, and subdued growth prospects, looking ahead ten years to predict the course of development requires careful modeling and something beyond sagacity.
There seems to be a sense of denial in several countries that large external imbalances were a cause of the crisis.
These imbalances ultimately reflected the accumulation of excessive international liquidity by countries like the US, stemming from excessive savings by countries like China.
The risk now is that the forces favoring earlier and effective adjustment of imbalances have been weakened.
Indeed, few today are calling for the IMF to play a stronger role in preventing the accumulation of excessive external imbalances and in fostering more disciplined domestic policies.
But, if financing were to become easier, it would be unclear how both creditors and debtors would perceive the risk of excessive imbalances.
The real danger is that adjustment would take place even later, with imbalances left to accumulate for a longer period of time.
A viable international financial system requires a mechanism to keep imbalances in check.
It also demands determined efforts to reduce global imbalances by rebalancing Asia’s own sources of growth.
The authors did address whether global imbalances, derivatives, and subprime mortgages posed a threat to financial stability.
It believed that global imbalances would unwind gradually.
In the eurozone, imbalances in competitiveness and fiscal positions – which were not noted during the perfunctory check, based on formal criteria, that was conducted before approving new members – led to a protracted economic crisis.
But it does mean that there is limited hope for resolving seemingly chronic trade deficits – and the related erosion of domestic hiring traceable to these imbalances – if the US doesn’t start saving again.
Over the past ten years, two five-year plans – the 12th, enacted in 2011, and the 13th, enacted in 2016 – plus a major set of reforms adopted at the so-called Third Plenum in 2013, have aimed to resolve China’s persistent and worrisome imbalances.
A reformed global payments system, which mandates symmetrical adjustment of global imbalances, would need to tackle this issue.
Equally important, however, is the reduction of economic imbalances and European policy coordination to enable growth.
There have been worries for years about the global imbalances caused by America’s huge overseas borrowing.
Unprecedented shifts and growing imbalances – between consumption and production, savings and investment, economy and ecology, social inclusion and marginalization, and equality and disparity – persist and incubate within a complex global system in which there is no “risk-off” switch.
Discussion of China’s currency focuses around the need to shrink the country’s trade surplus and correct global macroeconomic imbalances.
The details differ, but the idea is the same: creditors are shifting the entire burden of adjustment onto debtors, while the “center” avoids its own responsibility for the imbalances.
That would require some extraordinary policy measures to return conditions closer to normal, and they must conform to existing treaties, which could then be revised in a calmer atmosphere to prevent recurrence of imbalances.
The imbalances specific to underdevelopment create opportunities that policymakers can seize on.
Moreover, today’s global imbalances and misaligned real exchange rates threaten to bring on not just mild recession, but significant and prolonged depression.
The choices are more extreme in countries where the imbalances are more severe and markets suffer more policy-induced impediments to the private-sector flexibility, mobility, and dynamism that continue to benefit the US.
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