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In 2007, Lehman Brothers, AIG, and most other players in the financial markets were earning huge returns by trading derivatives backed by very risky mortgages.
First, it does not require government regulators to decide how much individual assets are worth, because private markets value toxic assets.
Asian commentators, for their part, blamed hedge funds for destabilizing regional financial markets and the International Monetary Fund for prescribing a course of treatment that nearly killed the patient.
But global conditions this year are anything but traditional, so it seemed appropriate to wait until US President Donald Trump settled into the White House to weigh in on some of the main surprises that might shake up the world economy and financial markets on his watch.
For starters, Trump’s economic policies are likely to produce much higher US interest rates and inflation than financial markets expect.
The US Federal Reserve Board’s published forecasts suggest only three quarter-point rate hikes this year, and futures markets have priced in just two such moves.
As Trump launches his policies, however, the Fed is likely to tighten its monetary policy more than it had planned before the inauguration, not less, as the markets still expect.
And this policy divergence suggests a second potential shock for which financial markets seem unprepared.
The catalyst for exchange-rate appreciation would be not only higher US interest rates, but also a dollar squeeze in emerging markets, where foreign debts have increased by $3 trillion since 2010.
Fortunately, a third major development that is not priced into financial markets could be more favorable for global economic conditions: the European Union – an even more important market than the US for almost every trading country apart from Mexico and Canada – could do much better than expected in 2017.
In that case, a breakup of the EU will become a realistic prospect, triggering panic in European financial markets and economies.
As those policies fail, global financial markets are reacting negatively, adding uncertainty to the world economy, and there is little relief in sight, because America is entering a period of prolonged political infighting and stalemate.
The dollar is weakening, as financial markets understand that the US will need to borrow huge sums from abroad for years to come.
It should also be obvious that, in the absence of currency markets to act as a “valve” for economic and financial pressures, economic volatility may increase.
The ECB’s Lethal InhibitionBERKELEY – Last December, with Europe’s financial system on the brink of disaster, the European Central Bank stunned the markets with an unprecedented intervention, offering banks across the eurozone essentially unlimited liquidity against any and all collateral for an exceptional period of three years.
Governments fear that they will lose credibility with financial markets.
The world market is being re-divided – peacefully, because territories and markets are separated, so that no power occupies another power’s territory.
Now, the new financial markets commissioner, the United Kingdom's Lord Jonathan Hill, has been assigned the unenviable task of putting flesh on bare bones.
Most regulators and market participants agree that Europe's financial markets are dysfunctional.
Moreover, European companies receive an excessive 80% of their finance from banks and less than 20% from capital markets (the proportions are roughly reversed in the US).
In both cases, the main argument for not removing the debt overhang came from bankers, who claimed that it would create havoc in financial markets for two reasons.
Perhaps the risk that a Greek debt restructuring would cause a financial meltdown was always minimal, and quiescent markets were to be expected.
And it should not come as a surprise that the markets have tested the willingness of European political leaders to keep quiet where monetary affairs are concerned.
Recent intervention and support from America and Japan showed that the Euro is here to stay and that the markets believe in its success.
Undoubtedly, expansion will provide the “older” democracies with new growth markets.
There was a collective sigh of relief, financial markets stabilized, and industrial-production rebounded.
Stock markets have been falling most days, money markets and credit markets have shut down as their interest-rate spreads skyrocket, and it is still too early to tell whether the raft of measures adopted by the United States and Europe will stem the bleeding on a sustained basis.
Emerging markets were initially tied to this distress only when foreign investors began pulling out their money.
Then panic spread to credit markets, money markets, and currency markets, highlighting the vulnerabilities of many developing countries’ financial systems and corporate sectors, which had experienced credit booms and had borrowed short and in foreign currencies.
Many emerging markets are now at risk of a severe financial crisis.
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