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The recent failure of the Bank of England’s guidance to move
markets
in the desired direction might mean that investors are more optimistic about the British economy.
They should start withdrawing from their overly explicit policy commitments and attempts to micro-manage financial
markets.
Rather than trying to nudge investors toward certain outcomes and explicit numerical targets, Yellen and other central bankers need to communicate more clearly how they think about risks and opportunities in the economy and financial markets, and then let private investors decide the balance of risk and reward for themselves.
This would help
markets
become more self-sufficient and resilient, thereby enhancing financial stability and providing support for economic recovery.
Our society is awash with inflated information, which is inherent to efforts in many human activities – entertainment, law courts, stock markets, politics, and sports, to name but a few – to gain greater public attention in the framework of mass civilization.
With interest rates set to rise in the United States this year, volatility in international capital
markets
can be expected to increase.
Finally, Macri’s government reached a deal with the so-called vulture funds and other holdout creditors that for more than a decade had blocked the country from accessing international credit
markets.
Moreover, there is nothing in economic theory that should have made economic technocrats think that Anglo-American institutions of corporate governance or "flexible labor markets," to pick just two examples, produce unambiguously superior economic performance when compared to German-style insider control or institutionalized labor
markets.
Therefore we know that
markets
do better than central planning, and that foreign trade is better than autarky.
But it takes a huge leap of faith to conclude from this that one can't go wrong by deregulating, privatizing, and opening domestic
markets
as much as possible.
It has not been persistently intervening in foreign-exchange
markets
(at least not to push down its currency), and it is not running an overall current-account surplus greater than or equal to 3% of GDP (its surplus in 2017 was 1.3%).
There is a fourth possibility: Potential growth and productivity growth have actually fallen since the financial crisis, as aging populations in most advanced economies and some key emerging
markets
(such as China and Russia), combined with lower investment in physical capital (which increases labor productivity), have led to lower trend growth.
The problem is that economists (and those who listen to them) became over-confident in their preferred models of the moment:
markets
are efficient, financial innovation transfers risk to those best able to bear it, self-regulation works best, and government intervention is ineffective and harmful.
Non-economists tend to think of economics as a discipline that idolizes
markets
and a narrow concept of (allocative) efficiency.
Labor economists focus not only on how trade unions can distort markets, but also how, under certain conditions, they can enhance productivity.
Finance theorists have written reams on the consequences of the failure of the “efficient markets” hypothesis.
Advanced training in economics requires learning about market failures in detail, and about the myriad ways in which governments can help
markets
work better.
He wants private markets, not government, to choose winning firms and technologies.
The euro was built on the assumption that
markets
correct their own excesses, and that imbalances arise only in the public sector.
The authorities, seeing no solution, kicked the can down the road – an approach that usually works, because problems become easier to solve when
markets
calm down.
For starters, the roof is starting to collapse on the global housing bubble, as housing
markets
begin to freeze up not only in the United States, but also in many other countries, such as high-flying Spain.
Moreover, money markets, especially in Europe, remain traumatized by the festering global credit crunch.
But if emerging
markets
force Europe to take all the adjustment, the results would be catastrophic, pushing up the euro to $1.50, $1.60 or beyond, with truly dire consequences for trade.
Such speculation was enabled by massive deregulation of commodities-derivative
markets
that began in 2000 – and that now must be reversed.
Whatever gains in agricultural production result from these investments will benefit foreign markets, not local communities.
Weather-related events are a major cause of price volatility on agricultural
markets.
We need markets, of course, but we also need a vision for the future that goes beyond short-term fixes.
Its advanced economies did not display the same vulnerabilities as emerging
markets.
However, governments cannot simply liberalize
markets
and hope for the best.
Finally, greater attention is being paid to developing a pan-African identity, and African fashions, films, and foods are expanding to new
markets.
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