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I have believed for some months that the Fed should start tightening monetary policy to reduce the risks of financial instability caused by the behavior of investors and lenders in response to the prolonged period of exceptionally low interest rates since the 2008 financial crisis.
Proper regulation and scrutiny is crucial to an international organization’s success, and robust environmental, labor, and procurement standards are essential to the mission of all development lenders.
Similar principles should be instituted at the AIIB, the AfDB, and other development lenders.
Moreover, such lenders should not operate in a vacuum.
Gradually, with lenders becoming increasingly confident in subsequent years that low inflation was here to stay, real long-term interest rates began heading south.
Only central banks – typically lenders of last resort – lean against the hurricane-strength winds.
But, in a world of fractional reserve banks, there is clearly a danger that the initial stimulus could be multiplied later by the subsequent expansion of private “inside money” purchasing power, as animal spirits return to bank and shadow-bank lenders and borrowers.
One can never have negative nominal interest rates (except through some oddity of taxes or regulations), since lenders would rather hold their cash than effectively pay borrowers.
The message from the troika of European bailout lenders – the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund – is loud and clear: “Do as we say, like Cyprus has done, and you will recover.
They could buy bad loans from lenders and forgive part of the principal payable by borrowers, simultaneously reducing lenders’ collateral requirements and borrowers’ debt overhang.
Both lenders and borrowers would be better off from a comprehensive debt cancelation.
In practice, this would mean that if Greece, say, were to have to restructure its debt once the bonds had been issued up to the limit, it would presumably service these bonds (which essentially represent official multilateral debt) in full, with private lenders bearing all the losses.
Ultimately, however, their average cost would not be lower, because, again, if official creditors are senior to private lenders, large-scale official financing – which is used mainly to repay maturing debt – would impede governments’ access to private credit markets.
How to Save the World BankOXFORD – The World Bank is quietly sliding into insignificance, as its core fee-paying clients increasingly seek other lenders.
Regulators have recently woken up to the incentives for excessive leverage in this sector – and to the risks that such leverage poses to lenders and the broader economy.
Countries do not need to be at the mercy of major lenders like China.
When queried about America’s dependence on foreign lenders, they often smugly retort, “Where else would they go?”
Capital flight stems from myriad causes: debt servicing, the awarding to foreign firms of almost all contracts financed by multilateral lenders (and exemptions from taxes and duties on these goods and services), unfavorable terms of trade, speculation, free transfer of benefits, foreign exchange reserves held in foreign accounts, and domestic private capital funneled abroad.
Using the latter two types to impose "odious debts" on Africans undermines western lenders' credibility concerning money laundering, good governance, transparency, fiscal discipline, and macroeconomic policies conducive to economic growth.
Well-functioning credit markets require that lenders face the consequences of irresponsible or politically motivated lending.
The dysfunctional system of European fiscal governance should be dismantled; fiscal responsibility should be returned to member states; and, to minimize the risk of excessive future lending, private lenders should be required to bear the losses implied by unsustainable sovereign debt.
National fiscal sovereignty would facilitate the final crucial step: building a more mature relationship with private lenders.
The eurozone was founded on the “no bailout” principle: if member states could not repay their debts, lenders would bear the losses.
But lenders chose – correctly, as it turned out – to disregard that threat.
As a result, these countries have condemned themselves to continued austerity, low growth, and high debt, while diminishing any future incentive for private lenders to impose fiscal discipline on sovereign borrowers.
Only by shifting the burden of responsibility back onto private lenders can debtor countries escape this quagmire.
But it has also faced harsh criticism, with some lenders being accused of profiteering.
Critics point to the string of economic crises in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in recent years, often attributing them to multilateral lenders' demands for full liberalization of foreign trade and capital flows, privatization, and fiscal austerity.
Indeed, thanks to ongoing grants and future loans from national aid agencies and multilateral lenders like the World Bank, most of the poor “debtor” countries look set to receive considerably more money than they pay back, with no end in sight.
The impetus for a big subprime market came from within the private sector: “innovation” by giant mortgage lenders like Countrywide, Ameriquest, and many others, backed by the big investment banks.
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