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It should start from the empirical observation that no economy has grown on a sustained basis without relying on markets and free exchange.
But, unlike libertarians, centrists do not think markets can cure all ills; on the contrary, in some cases (finance is the most obvious example), unregulated markets can be a source of instability.
The size of government and the nature of markets together amount to one defining issue of our time.
Given this dissonance, the financial markets are responding with renewed upward pressure on Italian borrowing costs.
To be sure, he is constantly treading a fine line between jittery markets, EU demands, and partisan maneuvering ahead of national elections in less than a year.
Burgeoning markets might disappear and investment opportunities evaporate, while the risk of political instability will increase.
Why Markets and Political Scientists Disagree on the G7WASHINGTON, DC – To say that this month’s summit of G7 leaders in Canada was an unusual one would be an understatement.
But, while political analysts were quick to declare the end of the G7’s coherence, integrity, and usefulness, markets were unfazed.
In fact, the longer-term outcome may well prove markets right, albeit with some important qualifications.
Yet, when markets opened on Monday morning, they were utterly unaffected by the weekend’s developments; for them, the G7 summit had essentially been a non-event.
More fundamentally, markets have been conditioned to postpone significant price adjustments until there is overwhelming evidence of negative economic and financial effects.
In recent years, markets have faced an unusually large (and expanding) set of unconventional political statements and maneuvers.
For markets, waiting for strong evidence of an economic impact, rather than reacting to every statement or event, has proved profitable.
For example, we should ensure that values and ethics are at the heart of our individual and collective behaviors, including in capital and financial markets.
Consider also the credit markets.
Prime borrowers with good credit scores and investment-grade firms are not experiencing a credit crunch at this point, as the former have access to mortgages and consumer credit while the latter have access to bond and equity markets.
And the credit crunch for non-investment-grade firms and smaller firms, which rely mostly on access to bank loans rather than capital markets, is still severe.
One reason was that rising stock markets and higher house prices made individuals wealthier, reducing their need to save for retirement and allowing retirees to dissave more.
These measures, too, are supposedly doomed because they all involve increasing governments’ liabilities, and financial markets are at a tipping point with respect to sovereign debt.
In principle, foreign demand, especially in high-growth emerging markets, could make up some of the difference.
Several countries, most notably Germany and France, seem hobbled by inflexible labor markets and regulations that inhibit dynamism.
The emphasis in Europe has been on regulating financial markets with a view to moderating future crises.
Policy debates in the US are chiefly preoccupied with ensuring that banks are never “too big to fail”; that private investors rather than taxpayers hold “contingent capital,” which in a crash can be converted into equity; and that “over-the-counter” markets’ functioning be improved through greater reliance on centralized trading, clearing, and settlements.
A better argument for curbing bank size is the excessive influence of big banks on policy.What policymakers should therefore be looking for is regulation that makes the financial system less sensitive to error in markets’ estimation of risk, not more so.
In terms of fiscal policy, most advanced economies’ public finances are suffering because policymakers have failed to implement sufficient supply-side structural reforms to control public-pension growth, reform growth-inhibiting taxes, and liberalize labor markets.
And yet the announcement of a monetary-policy package that in a different era would have been considered inconceivably accommodative, actually disappointed financial markets.
Will it lead to a persistent increase in risky assets, especially in US and other global equity markets?
Finally, will its effects on GDP growth and equity markets be similar or different?
Meanwhile, the main transmission channels of monetary stimulus to the real economy – the bond, credit, currency, and stock markets – remain weak, if not broken.
Faced with an invasion of Russian state-minded companies, EU member states are tempted to ring-fence certain sectors of their economies (such as domestic energy markets), threatening the liberal economic order that is at the centre of the European project.
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