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In Brazil, the government’s efforts to weaken the central bank’s independence and meddle in energy and lending markets have harmed growth.
Nevertheless, some emerging markets are moving forward and stand to benefit from the turmoil if they are able to stay the course.
So, overall, how fragile are emerging markets?
The real question is what will happen when the turmoil moves to debt markets.
The law – like the economy – has served as a stand-in for politics for too long, embodying the idea that, with no alternative to liberal democracy and free markets, politics can be reduced to technocracy.
Oil Dictator DominosLONDON – Price movements as large and rapid as those that have upended oil markets since June 2014 are sure to cause pain to some and benefit others.
As a result, while sliding equity markets and a further decline in oil (and other commodity) prices have sparked much talk of another global recession, dire predictions are likely to prove overly gloomy and misdirected.
Their export markets in emerging economies will suffer, damping hopes of a trade-led recovery, but that negative effect stands to be more than offset by the windfall from a big drop in energy costs.
But, as an EU member, it already has access to about 70% of the world’s markets on favorable terms.
Most sober analysts have long been projecting a steady trend decline in the dollar against the currencies of America’s trading partners, especially in Asia and emerging markets.
As a result, stock markets have started to rally in the US and around the world.
Markets seem to believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel for the economy and for the battered profits of corporations and financial firms.
Given this outlook for the real economy and financial institutions, the latest rally in US and global stock markets has to be interpreted as a bear-market rally.
Economists usually joke that the stock market has predicted 12 out of the last nine recessions, as markets often fall sharply without an ensuing recession.
Deleveraging by highly leveraged firms – such as hedge funds – will lead them to sell illiquid assets in illiquid markets.
To be sure, much more aggressive policy action (massive and unconventional monetary easing, larger fiscal-stimulus packages, bailouts of financial firms, individual mortgage-debt relief, and increased financial support for troubled emerging markets) in many countries in the last few months has reduced the risk of a near depression.
That outcome seemed highly likely six months ago, when global financial markets nearly collapsed.
The same is true for a sustained recovery of financial markets.
After all, futures markets predicted prices of $75 or higher; the Saudi and Russian governments needed $100 to balance their budgets; and any price much below $50 was considered unsustainable, because it would put the US shale-oil industry out of business.
That crisis carries important lessons for the current turmoil in emerging markets like Argentina and Turkey.
In the 1990s, however, emerging markets, especially in Asia, increased their external borrowing considerably, creating the currency and balance-sheet mismatches that later triggered the crisis.
So can the elusive set of policies that are supposed to show credibility and keep markets confident, summoning the “confidence fairy,” as Paul Krugman would say.
And innovation is necessary not only for developed economies, but also for emerging markets, which are receiving diminishing returns from simply transposing advanced economies’ best practices.
But, while every country needs to innovate, the tried and tested approaches do not work for all markets.
Success lies in the ability of firms to combine these factors either in a single country or across several markets.
Although Cyprus is too small to matter for global financial markets, the crisis there could turn out to be an important precedent guiding how European policymakers deal with future banking problems.
Cyprus also holds a more general lesson: Given the extreme reaction of financial markets to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, it had become axiomatic among European policymakers that no bank should be allowed to become insolvent.
But financial markets reacted calmly to the news that, for the first time, even depositors in a bank in the European Union will lose part of their money (and this was noted with glee in Berlin and elsewhere in northern Europe).
Despite these geopolitical risks, global financial markets have reached new heights.
There are many explanations for why markets may be ignoring geopolitical risks.
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