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Country after country is being forced by either the financial
markets
or the European Union to start cutting its public-sector deficit.
Thus, a lower deficit might actually heighten tensions in financial
markets.
Abandoning austerity out of fear that financial
markets
might be short-sighted would only postpone the day of reckoning, because debt ratios would increase in the long run.
The periods around World War I and World War II are routinely overlooked in discussions that focus on deregulation of capital
markets
since the 1980s.
The liquidity injections of quantitative easing (QE) have shifted monetary-policy transmission channels away from interest rates to asset and currency
markets.
What central banks cannot achieve with traditional tools can now be accomplished through the circuitous channels of wealth effects in asset
markets
or with the competitive edge gained from currency depreciation.
The remaining $900 billion spilled over into financial markets, helping to spur a trebling of the US equity market.
Clearly, oil producers failed to anticipate the growth of demand in China—so much for the wisdom and foresight of private
markets.
Of course, American mortgage
markets
allow households to lock in the lower interest rates.
What, exactly, this will do to business confidence and currency
markets
is anybody’s guess, but it won’t be pretty.
And, with our banking reforms, we are strengthening our reputation as the home of global finance – from insurance to asset management, and from the new offshore renminbi
markets
to issuance of the first sovereign sukuk, or Islamic bond, in a non-Islamic country.
In May 2010, financial
markets
lost confidence in the ability of Greece to manage its budget deficit and to repay its debt.
While that intervention provided a temporary respite, uncertainty persists in financial
markets.
But all this potential strength may be to no avail if Europeans do not solve the immediate problems stemming from financial markets’ loss of confidence in the euro.
But recent events at the European Central Bank, in Germany, and in global financial markets, make it worthwhile to consider a favorable scenario for the common currency’s future.
When the
markets
see that coming, they will drive Italy’s sovereign interest rates even lower.
If Italy and Spain have budget surpluses and declining debt/GDP ratios, financial
markets
will reduce the interest rates on their bonds without the proposed ECB purchases.
Perhaps that is just a temporary effect and the euro will decline when global financial
markets
recognize that a weaker exchange rate is needed to reduce current-account deficits in the eurozone’s three major Latin countries.
Central banks do not completely deny the economic costs that these policies imply: exuberance in financial markets, financing gaps in funded pension systems, and deeper wealth inequality, to name just a few.
Yet the policies pursued in recent years have given no room for the intangibles – unstable political environments, geopolitical tremors, or rising risks on financial
markets
– that can send models off course.
If expansionary policies fail to have the desired effect of lifting inflation to the predefined level of around 2%, they do not question their models; they simply increase the policy dosage – which is just what
markets
expect.
In addition to inflationary pressure, the Fed’s monetary policy must also take into account employment statistics, growth data, and the stability of financial
markets.
If central banks keep missing these rather narrow marks (“below, but close to 2%”), they end up in an expectations trap, whereby
markets
expect them to dispense ever higher doses of monetary medicine in a frantic attempt to reach their target.
When these programs end, governments, some emerging markets, and some corporations could be vulnerable.
The International Monetary Fund noted in 2013 that there were already “signs of overheating in real-estate markets” in Europe, Canada, and some emerging-market economies.
China can still tap new
markets
through efforts such as the “Belt and Road Initiative,” but at a considerable cost.
Chinese producers can use 3D printing, robotization, and Big Data and AI applications at the local level, while still tapping into global
markets
and sourcing ideas and skills from abroad.
Indian firms like Infosys and Wipro, giants in the information-technology sector, are now looking for cutting-edge services and high-grade talent as they compete for local
markets
such as the US.
But, if I had not, HP would have become uncompetitive in fiercely competitive markets, and I would have lost 100,000 jobs.”
These two Mexicos are pulling in opposite directions, which explains why three decades of reforms to open markets, privatize industries, embrace free trade, and welcome foreign investment have failed to raise growth rates.
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