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Though prices collapsed during the Great Recession of 2009, they quickly recovered, with the value of Russian output reaching another peak in 2012-2013 – precisely when Russia’s position on the EU-Ukraine association agreement hardened.
When oil prices rise, Russia expresses its latent resentments more aggressively, often employing its military.
Moreover, at higher prices, the oil industry crowds out other export sectors that support open markets and a less aggressive foreign policy.
The Soviet war in Afghanistan was followed by a long-term decline in oil prices.
And oil prices are not Russia’s only problem.
President Vladimir Putin’s new Novorossya project simply cannot progress with oil prices at their current level.
At least two of the reasons for high – and rising – home prices in the United States are well understood.
And, with demand high and housing supply fixed – at least in the short run – prices go up.
Before there was widespread automobile ownership, land prices depended on location, and proximity to the central city or to the local railroad station carried a premium.
Now, with serious congestion slowing traffic in major cities to a crawl, the land gradient in housing prices is steep once again.
These two factors – low mortgage rates, and the fact that the country has filled up so much that our cars no longer marginalize location costs – go a long way toward explaining the surge in housing prices over the past decade or so.
The bubble is filled by people with money who are buying extra houses because they think home prices will continue to rise, and by people without money who are buying $400,000 houses in less-fashionable neighborhoods with zero percent down and floating interest rates.
When the first group discovers that housing prices don’t always go up, they will try to dump their properties.
As the prices of these assets fall, their yields will rise.
A 40% fall in the value of the dollar – of which half passes through to increased dollar prices of imports – thus implies a 3.2% rise in the overall price level.
Getting Prices RightHONG KONG – Building and maintaining the infrastructure of property rights – the rules, laws, registers, and administrative and judicial structures that define, protect, and enforce such rights and regulate economic transactions – has traditionally been the responsibility of national governments.
The state affects asset prices indirectly through its influence on inflation, interest rates, and the strength of the currency.
Governments can directly influence the prices of key resources like energy, money, and public goods and services through taxation, customs duties, production quotas, and natural-resource ownership.
Government intervention in benchmark prices can be justified in the name of macroeconomic management or regulatory action to improve the provision of public goods and services.
But there is a risk that the state can get important prices seriously wrong.
This is particularly true of money, which has two prices.
The distinction between the two prices is the foundation of modern finance theory.
The logic and the mechanism that the government uses to set benchmark prices are very different from those that the market uses to set risk premia.
Last year’s LIBOR scandal, in which banks were found to be reporting inaccurate interest rates in order to manipulate the prices of financial instruments, epitomized this risk.
While cross-border capital flows and interest and exchange rates must be liberalized to maintain economic development, such reforms raise the risk of asset bubbles if implemented under distorted benchmark prices.
Some distressed banks clearly possess large quantities of mortgage-backed securities, and are holding onto them in the hope that their prices will rise in the future, saving them from failure.
At the same time, buyers expect even lower prices down the line.
For some, low prices would render them insolvent.
For others, low prices would be a tremendous buying opportunity, whose prospective return far exceeds returns from lending today.
This can reverse a freeze in the market caused by distressed entities that are unwilling to sell at prevailing market prices.
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