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Policymakers in Europe and the US are urged to act on this conventional thinking: Something must be done to insulate CEOs, boards, and managers from the financial markets’ ever-shortening time horizons.
But highlighting short-term trading in stock markets obscures other powerful sources of short-termism in corporate time horizons, such as uncertainty about long-term government fiscal policies on both sides of the Atlantic.
Consider, first, the lofty market capitalization of Apple and other tech companies, which belies the depiction of US financial markets as hopelessly short-term-oriented.
Indeed, the intermittent over-valuation of entire economic sectors – recall the dot-com bubble from a decade ago – indicates that financial markets are often excessively focused on the long term.
Excessive short-termism can come from the executive suite as much as from financial markets, especially from CEOs, who in the US have an average tenure of 6-7 years.
Insulating CEOs and boards further from financial markets may perversely free them to focus even more narrowly on short-term results.
If investors understand that online distribution is revolutionizing the retail sector, isolating the sector’s CEOs from financial markets would just push more resources into a deteriorating, shrinking business model.
That was certainly the case at the end of last month, when, in a single day, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, its prime minister, David Cameron, announced his resignation, and Britain and Europe, not to mention global markets, were thrown into turmoil.
But, when governments are working to provide more tangible basic necessities – say, ensuring that citizens have reliable access to clean drinking water or road links to markets and hospitals – educational reform can often fall by the wayside.
This, together with reform of the rules covering the capitalization of banks – which incorrectly treat all sovereign debt as risk-free and do not cap banks’ holdings of it – would enable markets, not Germany, to rein in truly excessive borrowing.
This explains why Mittal’s shares are traded in Amsterdam, one of the few stock markets in the world that allows for the listing of companies with so little free-floating capital.
Wars, ethnic cleansing, embargoes, and sanctions created not only psychological traumas, but also black markets, smuggling, large-scale corruption, and de facto rule by mafias.
With Belarus’s economy crumbling and its export markets withering, Russia could exploit Lukashenko’s vulnerability.
The country needs greater access to global markets and eventual support for admission to the World Trade Organization, which is one of the EU’s greatest selling points and one of Russia’s fundamental weaknesses.
The stock market’s collapse – its 72% fall is the largest of all major emerging markets – is only the most visible sign of this.
Many Russian banks were heavily exposed in foreign markets, and therefore faced severe financial problems once the crisis hit.
Before the financial crisis hit in 2008, all of these policies would have been disparaged as unwarranted interventions in financial markets.
Just as China needs access to world markets, the world needs China to become a full partner in addressing major global challenges.
Decisive steps to safeguard the banking sector’s health are necessary not only to reduce some of the risks that are preoccupying markets, but also because healthy financial institutions are vital for economic growth.
Europe must have credible fiscal-consolidation plans to restore debt sustainability, but it is also essential that it has a growth strategy that includes policies aimed at boosting investment, freeing up product and labor markets, deregulating business, promoting competition, and building skills.
Such figures have led many observers to believe that overall domestic demand must be low, leaving China dependent on external markets for growth.
For example, when rapid investment growth in 2004 led to overheating, world markets were booming.
Either central banks would manage somehow to thread the needle and guide exchange rates and asset prices back to some stable and sustainable equilibrium configuration, or the chaos and disruption in financial markets would spill over into the real economy and a major global downturn would begin.
Moreover, the market still has enemies, for the effort to eliminate markets is not the only enemy that markets have.
Markets are the products of a very basic human characteristic, namely the characteristic to trade, to barter, or exchange goods and services.
These markets existed also in the Soviet Union at a time when great efforts were made to suppress them.
Markets exist wherever humans organize a society.
The effort to eliminate markets by eliminating their basic conditions is a phenomenon of the twentieth century.
In pre-modern times, men also sought to restrain markets: by organizing trades and crafts, by restricting the entry into markets.
But markets were never totally eliminated with the kind of determination that was applied to this task in the twentieth century.
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