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Moral hazard has been curtailed but the risks of investing in emerging markets increased.
Indeed, Ukraine’s interests form a comfortingly familiar triangle of economic, political, and strategic priorities: free trade and open markets across the globe; prosperous and democratic neighbors; and not being on the front-line of a conflict, still less a potential battleground, between Russia and the West.
The proposed Baltic Sea pipeline, which would bring gas to Germany directly from Russia, bypassing Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states, and the rest of Central Europe, is dangerous in this regard, because it may allow Gazprom the freedom to cut gas supplies to customers without endangering supplies to its favored western markets.
More securitization, easier online trading, and other financial-market developments in recent years have facilitated greater speculative investments, especially in commodity futures and options markets.
Central banks can intervene in the currency markets and sell reserves, thereby offsetting the withdrawal of financing by foreign lenders.
Blinder also predicted that the flexible, fluid US labor market would adapt better and faster to globalization than European labor markets would.
Soaring food and fuel prices and major natural disasters played an important role in undermining financial markets, household purchasing power, and even political stability.
Moreover, policymakers in the rich world believe that they can continue to neglect the developing world, or leave it to its fate in global markets.
Without fail, markets signaled growing doubt: interest-rate spreads over German Bunds increased in Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and Greece.
The country finds itself unable to refinance its debts in private markets at an affordable cost – as happened to Greece and Portugal.
In their view, governments will need to intervene radically in markets to restore social balance.
But, of course, there is just as much red tape in domestic interactions, where the state regulates everything from product quality and safety to financial services and labor markets.
Dysfunction was evident in even the most stable and sophisticated segments of financial markets.
And now the darlings of the world economy, emerging markets, have proved unable to reverse their own slowdowns.
Russia, Brazil, and South Africa are growing at around 3%, and other emerging markets are slowing as well.
Second, while growth has been disappointing in both developed and emerging markets, financial markets remain hopeful that better economic data will emerge in the second half of 2013 and 2014, especially in the US and Japan, with the UK and the eurozone bottoming out and most emerging markets returning to form.
It was already evident in the first and second quarters of this year that growth in China and other emerging markets was slowing.
But the Fed’s recent signals of an early exit from QE – together with stronger evidence of China’s slowdown and Chinese, Japanese, and European central bankers’ failure to provide the additional monetary easing that investors expected – dealt emerging markets an additional blow.
A further slowdown in China and other emerging economies is another risk to financial markets.
A new period of uncertainty and volatility has begun, and it seems likely to lead to choppy economies and choppy markets.
Indeed, a broader de-risking cycle for financial markets could be at hand.
The theory holds that financial markets do not tend towards equilibrium.
Left to their own devices, markets are prone to extremes of euphoria and despair.
Indeed, because of their potential instability, financial markets are not left to their own devices; they are in the charge of authorities whose job it is to keep the excesses within bounds.
And the interaction between financial markets and financial authorities is also reflexive.
Fundamentalists believe that markets tend towards equilibrium and the common interest is best served by allowing participants to pursue their self-interest.
This is an obvious misconception, because it was the intervention of the authorities that prevented financial markets from breaking down, not the markets themselves.
Nevertheless, market fundamentalism emerged as the dominant ideology in the 1980s, when financial markets started to become globalized and the US began running a current account deficit.
The financial markets encouraged consumers to borrow by introducing ever more sophisticated instruments and more generous terms.
Business groups attempted to capture specific markets.
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