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This was not true in the twentieth century, when major innovations in leading sectors such as automobiles required large investments of risk capital.
This is inevitable, because, as John Maynard Keynes pointed out, the “riskiness” of many investments, being subject to inherent uncertainty, is immeasurable.
One day, when the wind price has fallen much further and solar is almost as cheap as wind, significant investments in wind and solar could be a great idea.
According to the forecaster International Market Assessment, “capital flows that have dried up are not…a reflection of global market conditions,” but of a loss in confidence among investors, arising principally from fiscal mismanagement, which has led to “price instability, falling investments and eventually a decline in…growth.”
Prioritizing investments, good planning, and sound project design can significantly boost the impact of new and modernized infrastructure on growth and job creation, as well as raise returns on scarce resources.
He understood that the government could eventually get huge returns if the money was spent on productivity-enhancing investments rather than on “directly wasteful” expenditure-increasing activities.
The question, then, is simple: which investments offer the greatest economic payoffs?
The US component should involve a new, sustained campaign for clean-energy development that involves large and small companies, national laboratories, universities, and non-governmental organizations (a sustained and expanded version of the Department of Energy’s energy investments under Obama’s stimulus legislation).
Only growth on that scale can provide the government with the money it needs to increase spending on education and health at the same time it increases defense spending, and only investments in human capital can sustain the long-term growth India craves.
International investments have not yet adjusted to changing global health needs, especially with respect to NCDs.
That return is comparable to the most successful global health investments in HIV and childhood immunization, and it is an investment worth making for the same reason: a peaceful, inclusive global economy presupposes healthier, more productive lives.
But, instead of reversing the disorderly deleveraging and encouraging new private investments, this official financing has merely shifted liabilities from the private sector to the public sector.
SOROS: I am no longer active in making investments.
Labor exporters now need to protect their investments in human capital, and a cartel-like political body is the most effective way to do this.
Moreover, large investments in R&D may be of limited use if knowledge can’t be transformed into successful businesses.
For example, rapid progress on global health emerged from scientific discoveries and large investments in innovative new institutions.
The fact is that high-risk research, just like high-risk capital investments in the business world, has the potential to be more profitable than safer approaches.
That is why only geoengineering, not investments in renewables, can be an insurance policy.
Long-term investments, not short-term profits, and productive work, rather than paper gains, need to be supported.
After all, if the economy is to grow again, banks need borrowers, but the recession has led entrepreneurs to cut their investments.
Today’s capital markets raise money for governments, corporate clients, and individual customers, manage pension funds’ investments, and bet on the level of interest rates or the stock market.
Already German, Dutch, and Finish savings amounting to €15,000, €17,000, and €21,000, respectively, per working person have been converted from marketable investments into mere equalization claims against the ECB.
But many free-market economists are inherently suspicious of direct support for specific investments, instead harking after the pure and simple market solution – a carbon price set either by taxation or by competition for permits within an emissions trading scheme.
Low-carbon electricity – whether from renewables or nuclear – entails very high upfront capital investments but near-zero marginal operating costs.
With carbon prices as the sole policy instrument, risk assessments of renewables investments would reflect highly uncertain forecasts of fossil fuel and marginal electricity prices far into the future.
True, we cannot know the precise mix of technologies and investments that will deliver a low-carbon economy at lowest cost.
The Juncker plan targets, in particular, infrastructure projects, which are often riskier than other investments.
Nobody wants to be the last one caught with money in Asia if everybody else is withdrawing their investments.
Since Asia’s banks borrowed short-term funds from abroad for long-term domestic investments, there are not enough short-term assets around to allow all investors to get their money out of Asia if all of the investors simultaneously decide to flee the region, as is now happening.
Moreover, by putting a price on pollution, governments can generate revenue for investments like clean energy, schools, and health care, making it a double win.
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