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Europe’s leaders will find that improving education and training – and throwing open hitherto protected
markets
– is a long and arduous task.
That confidence has been driven by a decline in financial and economic risk, together with the containment of geopolitical risks, which, as a result, have so far had little impact on economies and
markets.
Because stronger demand means less slack in product and labor markets, the recent growth acceleration in the advanced economies would be expected to bring with it a pickup in inflation.
Globalization keeps cheap goods and services flowing from China and other emerging
markets.
If a shock is temporary, central banks should not react to it; they should normalize monetary policy, because eventually the shock will wear off naturally and, with tighter product and labor markets, inflation will rise.
Of course, advanced-country central banks hope such asset inflation won’t appear at all, because inflation is being suppressed by temporary supply shocks, and thus will increase as soon as product and labor
markets
tighten.
By the 1960’s, all of democratic Europe was social democratic, a combination of free
markets
and mass social protection.
Upon the launch of fixed rates -- which will formally occur in early 1999, but in fact will begin in mid-1998 -- EMU will lead to efficiency gains in financial
markets.
The chances for increased scale and competitiveness of key financial sectors, such as insurance, pension funds, and equity markets, will be real.
But, as
markets
learn to cope with a less accommodative monetary policy, there could be an important silver lining, which most people have ignored.
Profit margins have expanded to record highs as companies have cut costs, delayed infrastructure investments, borrowed at ultra-low rates, and taken advantage of weak labor
markets
to avoid raising wages.
The Fed’s decision to raise rates is a historic moment for financial
markets
and is already ushering in a period of increased volatility for asset prices worldwide.
The point is not to prop up dying industries, but to increase the birth rate and reduce the infant-mortality rate of firms in industries that can take their place, especially those that can sell to “outsiders,” reconnecting each location with external and increasingly global
markets.
This spurred an unsustainable consumption boom, as well as unwarranted risk-taking by consumers and financial institutions, which contributed to the large distortions and bubbles in global financial
markets
that were the preconditions for the current crisis.
For deficit countries, borrowing from international institutions outside the
markets
would be easier, giving the issuer of such currency some form of international lender-of-last-resort function.
European fixed-income
markets
rallied strongly as a result, only to reverse course days later when Trichet and his colleagues made it clear that the
markets
had “misread” him.
For some unknown reason, Trichet is keen not to surprise
markets
over the very short term.
But, with financial
markets
now in turmoil and likely to stay that way, the time has come for the ECB to jettison its use of code words – a poor substitute for real central bank transparency in any case.
They fear that honesty about Europe’s economic prospects over the next year or so might cause
markets
to force it into an unwanted rate cut now.
Over the last two decades, Asia’s economic boom was largely driven by intra-regional manufacturing linkages, in which intermediate goods and parts were sourced from within Asia to be assembled into final goods for export to developed
markets
– earning the region the moniker “factory Asia.”
Access to education, capital, markets, and technologies would allow women to process, package, and market their products, especially for Africa’s growing middle class, bolstering both earnings and food supplies.
Despite the new agreement reached at the European Union’s summit in December, strengthening financial markets’ confidence in the eurozone remains an elusive goal.
Whenever the
markets
signal skepticism about the euro’s viability, European leaders rush to restore confidence through austerity measures, while ignoring the underlying need to reestablish the conditions for growth.
A large share of German exports (as well as those of other healthy eurozone economies) go to eurozone
markets
– including those in the troubled south.
If these
markets
now contract – and austerity has thus far led to severe recessions in Greece and Ireland, with Portugal expected to follow next year – so will the German economy.
Only a solution that balances the two will guarantee the long-term growth of both peripheral and core eurozone economies, reassuring debt
markets
of their solvency and stemming the contagion that threatens to sweep the continent.
Declining stock
markets
and low interest rates, have left private pensions around the world more vulnerable than was expected.
In these circumstances, it is not surprising that financial
markets
have returned to extreme volatility.
China’s economic power over the US is now substantial, and will limit not only America’s influence in the financial markets, but also its capacity to use military power.
As each year passes, China’s
markets
expand worldwide, and its domestic market comes to represent a greater percentage of its own GDP.
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